{"id":465,"date":"2016-09-22T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=465"},"modified":"2016-09-22T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T19:20:35","slug":"beware-someone-is-dropping-malware-infected-usb-sticks-into-peoples-letterbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/beware-someone-is-dropping-malware-infected-usb-sticks-into-peoples-letterbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware \u2014 Someone is dropping Malware-infected USB Sticks into People&#8217;s Letterbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you found a USB stick, but wait, wait, wait!!! Do not plug in an unknown usb anything into your computer, laptop, phone, whatever! \u00a0If you&#8217;re confused, watch the first year of Mr. Robot. Or, know that hackers put malware on these devices that WILL infect your machine. Be safe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;unmarked USB flash drives containing harmful malware being dropped inside random people&#8217;s letterboxes in the Melbourne suburb of Pakenham.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to one of the latest tactics of cyber criminals to target people by dropping malware-laden USB sticks into their mailboxes, in the hope unsuspecting users will plug the infected devices into their personal or home computers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/09\/usb-malware.html\">Read article&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2016\/09\/usb-malware.html\">Beware \u2014 Someone is dropping Malware-infected USB Sticks into People&#8217;s Letterbox<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you found a USB stick, but wait, wait, wait!!! Do not plug in an unknown usb anything into your computer, laptop, phone, whatever! \u00a0If you&#8217;re confused, watch the first year of Mr. Robot. Or, know that hackers put malware on these devices that WILL infect your machine. Be safe. &#8230;unmarked USB flash drives containing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-2","category-all-things-geeky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}