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Re:German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, oper... by theptip on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:22PM (#11581835)
See the recent BadUSB attack [1][2] for how this sort of attack can work; the firmware of the USB microcontroller itself can be infected.

[1] https://srlabs.de/badusb/ [2] http://www.wired.com/2014/07/usb-security/

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Re:German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, oper... by na85 on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @03:57PM (#11583979)
Doesn't badusb have to pwn the host OS to propagate?
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Re:German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, oper... by onetimePete on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @04:05PM (#11584060)
Nope, and reinstalling it wont help it..
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Re:German nuclear plant infected with computer viruses, oper... by aaron695 on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @06:18PM (#11585049)
Can work is irrelevant. And mostly wrong, since can is not do.

They claim it is happening.

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