[Eoscstudents] Ransomware USB drives through US Postal service

[George Larson]

Be very cautious if you receive an unexpected USB drive in your mailbox or
from UPS.

 

https://cnn.com/2022/01/07/politics/fbi-usb-hackers-warning/index.html

 

A prolific Eastern European cybercriminal group has tried to hack US
companies in the transportation, defense and insurance sectors by mailing
those organizations malicious USB drives, the FBI warned US businesses this
week in an advisory obtained by CNN.

The unnamed companies received a series of fake letters via the US Postal
Service and UPS from August to November impersonating the Department of
Health and Human Services in some cases, and Amazon in others, according to
the FBI.

But instead of an actual Amazon gift card, or authorized guidance about
<https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-us-maps-and-cases/>
the coronavirus pandemic, the letters came with a USB stick laced with
malicious software. If inserted into a computer, the USB stick could have
given the hacking group access to an organization's networks to deploy
ransomware, the FBI said.

 



 

 

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George Larson

Chief Technical Officer

Eastern Oklahoma State College

1301 W. Main St.

Wilburton, OK. 74578

 

 <mailto:glarson at eosc.edu> glarson at eosc.edu

918.465.1710

 

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