Taiwanese Police Give Cyber-security Quiz Winners Infected Devices (bbc.com)

Taiwan's national police agency said 54 of the flash drives it gave out at an event highlighting a government's cybercrime crackdown contained malware. From a report: The virus, which can steal personal data and has been linked to fraud, was added inadvertently, it said. The Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) apologised for the error and blamed the mishap on a third-party contractor. It said 20 of the drives had been recovered. Around 250 flash drives were given out at the expo, which was hosted by Taiwan's Presidential Office from 11-15 December and aimed to highlight the government's determination to crack down on cybercrime.

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Re:Well well

[TheRaven64]

We'll always accept them. We have a couple of machines specifically set up for this kind of thing, one with a USB analyser to look for low-level attacks and a RPi to look for software attacks. It's always interesting to see what you get on a free USB stick (police agency or otherwise).