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HP USB Keys Found Infested with Worms HP Australia has warned that USB flash drives shipped with one of its Proliant network servers are infected with a worm, bringing attention to the growing use of USB drives as a method to spread malicious software. The low danger worms, Fakerecy and SillyFDC, were found in a batch of 256MB and 1GB USB keys that was sent with the network servers. It is undetermined how many infected keys, used for installing optional floppy-disc drives to file servers, were distributed. An infected computer in the manufacturing factory is probably cause of the incident. The trojan spread is not seen an enormous threat, due in part to the low amount of estimated users still utilizing floppy disk drives for data storage and that most hackers don’t find the computer virus worthwhile. This is not the first incident of infection to come out of the factory; others have involved digital photo frames and similar products. AntiVirus software, if up to date, should discover both of the viruses involved in the HP Proliant USB attack as long the Anti-Virus software was installed after the floppy disk was added to the machine. Disabling auto-run thwarts both Fakerecy and SillyFDC and may be the easier alternative. Hewlett-Packard's advisory, via local security clearing house AUSCert, can be found here: http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=9077. The SANS Institutes’s Internet Storm Centre has advice on avoiding USB malware-related hazard here: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4247. Hardware products going out of the factory with malware is growing more common these days, raising the call for for strong AntiVirus protection.

Contributed by Information Security on June 10, 2008, at 12:37 PM UTC.

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