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		tokenizerrr on May 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cisco's Talos team analysis of WannaCry worm 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.

Franciscouzo on May 13, 2017 [–]

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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