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posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 05 2017, @07:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the oops-my-bad dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

IBM is urging customers to destroy flash drives it shipped to storage system customers because they contain malware.

The company warned in an advisory Tuesday that an unspecified number of USB flash drives shipped with the initialization tool for Storwize systems contain malicious code. IBM instructed customers who received the V3500, V3700 and V5000 Gen 1 systems to destroy the drive to prevent the code from replicating.

"When the initialization tool is launched from the USB flash drive, the tool copies itself to a temporary folder on the hard drive of the desktop or laptop during normal operation," IBM said in its advisory.

The malicious code is part of the Reconyc Trojan malware family, which typically targets computers in Russia and India, according to data from Kaspersky Lab.

IBM said that while the malware is copied onto the victim's device, the malicious code is not executed during initialization.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @07:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 05 2017, @07:41PM (#505103)

    This is what happens when you outsource your code to countries that have designated shitting streets.

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