The usb-storage.ko is the USB Mass Storage driver for Linux.

ls -l /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko

All you have to do is disable or remove the usb-storage.ko driver to restrict to use USB devices on Linux such as:

• USB keyboards
• USB mice
• USB pen drive
• USB hard disk
• Other USB block storage

To disable:

sudo modprobe -r usb_storage

To enable:

sudo modprobe -i usb_storage

The easiest way to disable usb storage device in linux is create following file and add following line inside the file:

sudo touch /etc/modprobe.d/no-usb

and populate:

/etc/modprobe.d/no-usb

install usb-storage /bin/true