Submission + - Cybercriminal Group Mails Malicious USB Dongles to Targeted Companies (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: Security researchers from Trustwave SpiderLabs have disclosed the first known, in the wild use of the BadUSB exploit, in which a USB dongle is 'reprogrammed so that, when inserted in a computer, it reports that it's actually a keyboard and starts sending commands that could be used to deploy malware,' writes Lucian Constantin for CSOonline. According to the researchers, such a USB device was mailed to a US company in February, packaged with the promise of a $50 gift card good for use on 'any product from the list of items presented on an USB stick.'