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A comment on Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm. Parent comment

Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by tokenizerrr on Saturday May 13, 2017 @07:51AM (#14330480)
Right, but the GP described an USB stick that they own. If you know that it's just an USB stick none of that applies.

Autorun hasn't been a thing in ages.

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Re:Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm by Franciscouzo on Saturday May 13, 2017 @01:13PM (#14331936)
Except that is not true, there's BadUSB (https://github.com/brandonlw/Psychson), which updates the firmware of some common USB drives to make it do whatever your want (such as emulating a mouse/keyboard).
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