The Honeynet Project launched a new project Thursday that is designed to snare malware that spreads by infecting removable USB (universal serial bus) storage drives, citing the increased reliance of malicious programs on portable drives to move from computer to computer.
The
ghost-usb-honeypot uses software to emulate portable USB flash drives on Windows systems that are exposed to malicious software circulating on the Internet. Researchers hope to be able to use the emulated drives to spot malware that copies itself to the virtual flash drives.
