The US government network is infected with malware by employees watching adult movies during the hour

According to the survey results, the US Geological Survey network (USGS) in the EROS satellite image storage center in South Dakota recently got into malware by an employee accessing thousands of adult video websites. His working computer, one of them contains malware.

He even sneaked a USB device into the office to download pornographic images despite being banned. Investigators of the US Department of the Interior's Inspector General discovered in his USD and Android phone, both of which were connected to computers that saved many pornographic images and were infected with malicious code.

Fortunately, where this guy works is a geological center, EROS only monitors and stores images of the Earth's surface, not containing sensitive information or top secret tasks.

The Inspector General of the US Department of the Interior confirmed that the national security did not suffer from any incident from this incident. In addition, the investigating agency said that malware infiltrated EROS's network is a kind of data extraction and victim extortion.

After this incident, the investigating agency also recommended that network managers should implement the policy of blocking black web, blocking USB ports, monitoring the browsing history of employees to avoid possible unfortunate circumstances. .

There is still no information about this guy's "fate".

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