Using Context and Provenance to defend against USB-borne attacks

Tobias Mueller, Ephraim Zimmer, Ludovico de Nittis · 2019

Today's readily available security measures to defend one's computers against malicious USB devices either show popups that require the user to allow each interaction, or they use identity-based peripheral devices attachment rules to allow or deny interaction with the new USB device, which again involves the user. In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for defending against USB attacks with the main goal of not involving the user.

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