Found a flash drive? Got one free at an event, or in the mail? Plugging in an unknown USB drive can infect a computer in seconds, no clicks needed.
Attackers seed parking lots and mailboxes with infected drives labeled things like "Payroll" or "Layoffs 2026" because curiosity works. Some malicious drives act as invisible keyboards that type commands the moment they connect. If you don't know its history, it doesn't touch your computer.
In the parking lot, at a conference booth, in the mail as a "gift," or handed over by a client. Its label begs to be opened.
"Payroll"? "Bonus list"? You plug it in just to see whose it is. Totally human. Exactly the plan.
Booby-trapped files, or worse: drives that impersonate a keyboard and silently type commands in seconds.
One infected office PC spreads to shared drives and every mapped connection. Whole companies have been breached by one drive.
Don't plug it in. Hand found drives to IT, or bring them to us for safe inspection.
Buy your own drives from real retailers, sealed.
Use cloud sharing instead of passing drives around with clients and vendors.
Businesses: we can lock down USB ports on machines that don't need them.
KCCS installs, secures, and watches business systems all over Southern Colorado. Get a free assessment — a real engineer walks your site and hands you a written punch list.
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