In 2017, a Kaspersky Lab data study revealed that every year around one in four USB users across the globe are affected by a ‘local’ cyber incident. Millions of USB devices are still designed, produced and sold each year with many used at home and at work (they’re also still a very popular item during promotional giveaways). Natanz nuclear facility, the target of the Stuxnet USB malware attack.Ĭyber threat actors have routinely abused this capability with the most famous example being the ‘world’s first digital weapon,’ the Stuxnet worm first discovered back in 2010, which used USB devices to attack the network of an Iranian nuclear facility.Īlthough USBs are still frequently used, cloud services of today, such as Dropbox and Google Drive, have taken on much of the responsibility when it comes to file storage and transfer, and there is a greater understanding of the security risk that can be posed by USB devices.
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