Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Taipei Times.

[snip]

Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive
manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan
horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites
anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the
Investigation Bureau said.

Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs, produced in
Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and
ghost.pif, the bureau under the Ministry of Justice said.

The tainted portable hard disc uploads any information saved on
the computer automatically and without the owner's knowledge to
www.nice8.org and www.we168.org, the bureau said.

[snip]

More:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/11/11/2003387202

Via /.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/11/2246246

Note:

While the hosts listed in this article would appear to be in
China (due to their *.cn domain), they are not -- one is in
Dallas Texas [75.126.97.113] and the other is in Korea
[222.122.180.190]. The ability for cyber criminals to register
domains in China, and have the actual hosts elsewhere geographically
is a simple process.

- - ferg

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