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Trojan Found In New HDs Sold In Taiwan

Via The Taipei Times.

Portable hard discs sold locally and produced by US disk-drive manufacturer Seagate Technology have been found to carry Trojan horse viruses that automatically upload to Beijing Web sites anything the computer user saves on the hard disc, the Investigation Bureau said.

Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs, produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau under the Ministry of Justice said.

The tainted portable hard disc uploads any information saved on the computer automatically and without the owner's knowledge to www.nice8.org and www.we168.org, the bureau said.

More here.

Note: While the hosts listed in this article would appear to be in China (due to their *.cn domain), they are not -- one is in Dallas Texas [75.126.97.113] and the other is in Korea [222.122.180.190]. The ability for cyber criminals to register domains in China, and have the actual hosts elsewhere geographically is a simple process. -ferg

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posted by Fergie @ 11/11/2007 09:09:00 PM