Usb drop / rat attack

PHYSICAL INTRUSION · REMOTE ACCESS TROJAN · SOCIAL ENGINEERING

Threat scenario:

An infected USB drive is deliberately left in a company parking lot. A well meaning employee discovers it and plugs it into a workstation triggering a Remote Access Trojan that silently executes and hands the attacker complete, persistent access to the internal network, bypassing every perimeter control.

04 Workflow Process

Business Impact

Our Assessment

Physical social engineering combined with a RAT creates a stealthy, persistent foothold that bypasses traditional perimeter defences entirely.

USB port restrictions, endpoint behavioural monitoring, and security awareness training covering physical threats are the key countermeasures.

Our IR experts detects RAT behaviour at the process level and enables full remote eradication across the entire fleet, eliminating the threat before lateral movement is established.

Benefits & Outcomes