Saturday, 17 November 2012

Proof-of-concept malware can share USB smart card readers with attackers over Internet

A team of researchers have created a proof-of-concept piece of malware that can give attackers control of USB smart card readers attached to an infected Windows computer over the Internet. The malware installs a special driver on the infected computer which allows for the USB devices connected to it to be shared over the Internet with the attacker's computer.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/malware/proof-of-concept-malware-can-share-usb-smart-card-readers-attackers-over-internet-207213

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