Due to infected USB sticks, the State Office warns against cyber threats
Information Security Office continues with the police Investigation of USB sticks infected with harmful program code. The keys made by Extra Lux and supplied by the Court of Auditors could be delivered to other customers in addition to the state administration.
The investigation is trying to find out where in the chain from manufacturer to sellers could occur, which can be seen at the Information Security Office (URSIV) as a pre -accession on a cyber attack.
Uroš Svetethe director of the URSIV, assured that the infected USB sticks were used in the Court of Auditors, where malicious code infection was detected in a timely manner and reported to the Office in accordance with the Information Security Act. Sveti announced that Ursiv would send a decision not to use such litters under the Information Security Act not to use such locks.
In addition to the Court of Auditors, how many state bodies still had infected keys are still being investigated, so Saint has no answer yet.
« We have estimated that, due to the number of key and nature of the threat, inter-zone influences may occur, » Saints justified his decision to declare the situation of increased threats and issue decisions by which taxpayers, all state bodies and providers prohibit the use of controversial USB sticks. The investigation will try to find out who the Ljubljana company has sold controversial keys to the Ljubljana company.
Saints explained that the malicious code they have discovered on the USB sticks in the Court of Auditors has been known for many years. Such a code through infected carriers comes into the information system of an infected institution, which is a kind of preparation for a cyber attack.
Such worms are not in themselves harmful, but are activated in the event of an attack on an infected information system. On this occasion, Saints again called for users to be careful when using portable media.
