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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... The prevalence of malware infection by means of AutoRun and USB flash drive was documented in a 2011 ...
Agent.BTZ, also named Autorun, [1] [2] is a computer worm that infects USB flash drives with spyware. A variant of the SillyFDC worm, [ 3 ] it was used in a massive 2008 cyberattack on the US military , infecting 300,000 computers.
autorun.inf is an ASCII text file located in the root folder of a CD-ROM or other volume device medium (See AutoPlay device types).The structure is that of a classic Windows .ini file, containing information and commands as "key=value" pairs, grouped into sections. [1]
The infection started when a USB flash drive containing malicious code created by a foreign intelligence agency was plugged into a laptop that was attached to United States Central Command. From there it spread undetected to other systems, both classified and unclassified. [1] [2]
Under Windows Vista, AutoRun cannot bypass AutoPlay in this way; it can only add to the options presented to the user. The Inf handling section of the AutoRun article details when and whether AutoPlay is invoked. The AutoRun layer initially consults Windows Registry values to decides whether to initiate actions for any particular drive or drive ...
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The prevalence of malware infection by means of USB flash drive was documented in a 2011 Microsoft study [6] analyzing data from more than 600 million systems worldwide in the first half of 2011. The study found that 26 percent of all malware infections of Windows system were due to USB flash drives exploiting the AutoRun feature in Microsoft ...