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123 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS UDC 004.6 Kamianskyi Yaroslav https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5035-6441 Hrabchenkov Bogdan Yarema Nikita Piliov Kostyantyn Kulyk Oleksandr 2nd year cadets Lychyk Vasil Doctor of Economic Sciences Professor of the Department of Counteracting Cybercrime, Institute No. 4 Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6007-910X PROTECTION AND COUNTERMEASURES AGAINSTATTACKS VIA USB DEVICES According to research company Honeywell , published in the GARD report USB Threat Report 2024, USB drives were involved in 51% of cyber incidents related to industrial control systems, and the number of malware distributed specifically via USB increased by 33% compared to last year [1]. At the same time, according to estimates by the State Special Communications Service , in 2024 the number of cyber attacks increased by 69.8% and reached 4315 recorded incidents,