Analysis: What could a hacker with a USB stick actually access at Mar-a-Lago?
President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate behind mangrove trees in Palm Beach, Fla. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow April 3 at 5:13 PM Over the weekend, as President Trump was enjoying his 25th visit to Mar-a-Lago since his inauguration, a woman was arrested by the Secret Service after bluffing her way into the reception area of the resort.
It’s important to note at the front end that it’s not clear what type of malware was on the woman’s USB drive. She may have been legitimately trying to attend an event at the facility and had with her materials that she might normally carry — including a drive that unbeknown to her was infected. So let’s consider the question in the abstract. To do so, we spoke by phone with Israel Barak, chief information security officer for the security firm Cybereason.
“A malicious tool that was injected into the target’s environment will report back or provide telemetry that will be saved back to the USB drive,” he said, “that will be carried out by an individual to a place where it can be transmitted to the operator and then commands will be downloaded to the USB drive, and some further actions can be taken by tool.
“There’s nothing that can be done to fully prevent a determined hacker from gaining access to a network,” Barak said. “You need to assume,” he later added, “[an] assumption of breach mind-set: The perimeter’s going to get breached. So you put in place systems, processes and people that can detect when something like this happens and have the capability to remove it from the environment before it impacts one of those critical assets.
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