Tag: autorun
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Malware reaches space station
Autorun worm found on non-critical systems. US space agency NASA has confirmed reports that laptops in use on the international space station have been found to have been infected with password-stealing malware. The infected systems are said to be non-mission-critical and used by space station crew for email and recording data from ‘nutritional experiments’. According…
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Batch of Dutch MP3 players ships with malware
Worm included as unwanted extra for music lovers. A shipment of MP3 players sold in recent months by Dutch firm Victory has been found to be infected with the Fujacks worm, which exploits autorun settings in Windows to be activated when a device is connected to a computer. The incident follows a series of similar…