Comment Re:A 2002 tactic is considered news today (Score 5, Interesting) 34
This particular attack has nothing to do with air-gapped networks, but you're right in that usb drives are used this way. In fact, they are the one and only communication method ever used to jump air-gaps in real attacks (at least that have been publicly reported). Plenty of other theoretical methods have been demonstrated though
Dropping this exhaustive analysis here in case anyone's interested in this topic: https://www.welivesecurity.com...