Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware

An anonymous reader writes: The old Conficker worm was found on new police body cameras that were taken out of the box by security researchers from iPower Technologies. The worm is detected by almost all security vendors, but it seems that it is still being used because modern day IoT devices can't yet run security products. This allows the worm to spread, and propagate to computers when connected to an unprotected workstation. One police computer is enough to allow attackers to steal government data. The source of the infection is yet unknown. It is highly unlikely that the manufacturer would do this. Middleman involved in the shipping are probably the cause.

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The manufacturer...

[mhkohne]

While I'll grant the manufacturer isn't likely to DELIBERATELY infect things, my first assumption is that the manufacturer simply has terrible security and the worm made it into the master image for all their devices.

Never assume malice where stupidity is a viable explanation.