Police Body Cameras Come With Pre-Installed Malware

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:18AM from the new-problems-for-new-times dept.

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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Good netizens by Ol+Olsoc · 2015-11-15 02:24 · Score: 3, Interesting

Looks like the Internet of Things is into recycling. Old virri that don't do shit on a PC can have new life on the security lacking IoT.
Now that's socially responsible.

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Chinese factory networks lousy with malware by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-15 04:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

I used to work for TomTom, who have also delivered new devices preloaded with malware, and it's quite common to find infected computers in the factories. TT devices had a USB mass storage mode and that's what was being infected. Wouldn't surprise me at all if that's what was happening in this case too...