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USB can be OK however you need like a staging machine and scan the files before entry plus use of a write block device on the USB hard drive. These are commonly used in forensics.

https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/computer...

This also tends to be a supply chain and insider threat.

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Scan them with what exactly? If you're hinting at AVs — I honestly doubt they could be useful against novel state-sponsored malware.

It would have caught it once Kapersky reported it and they are keeping their AV definitions up to date.

Write block prevents transfer back to the USB which is the exfiltration mechanism.

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