Alert - USBee, Malware that Steals Data From Air Gapped PCs

New covert malware uses USB drives to jump airgaps and works on almost every storage device.

The former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has recently leaked information that NSA knew how to change a USB device to break the security of a computer that is disconnected completely from the network, and issue certain files to a receiver through modifying the USB device.

USBee is designed to create electromagnetic emissions from a connected USB drive in efforts to transmit data from an air-gapped computer to an unmodified USB dongle, acting as a receiver, located a short distance from the targeted system. The malware is believed to be a marked improvement over the NSA-developed USB data retriever called CottonMouth, which first came to light after whistleblower Edward Snowden released classified NSA documents.