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Quagmiry Traps with Chinese Characteristics -- China-Made Photo Frame
with hidden viruses, sold at major Retailers

China-Made Photo Frame with hidden viruses, sold at major Retailers.

Friday, Feb 15th 2008 by Daniel Lim

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Snap! The China-made goods is on the news again, tainted food, poisonous
lead and now a malicious virus-infected digital photo frame that
identified by Computer Associates as Mocmex , ¡°a nasty worm that has a
great deal of intelligence¡± and ¡°a nuclear bomb of malware¡±

You know the Antivirus software company tends to exaggerate the state of
urgency when it comes to viruses, but it¡¯s not worst than some of them
with antivirus suite for OSX. Nevertheless, any malicious
self-propagated worm that has been spreading worldwide with variants
over 67,500 kinds is not to be taken lightly.

The Mocmex was first identified as a Trojan horse that collected online
games passwords, further studies has revealed its ability to get around
more than hundred antivirus vendors and Windows security layers. The
malware infected PC only ( Winblow !, what else?), and known to download
files and hid them randomly with hard to trace patterns, it would then
propagated to another PC or other portable storage device as a shelter
as soon as it¡¯s plugged into one. CA says Mocmex¡¯s strength is more than
just a simple game-password collector, it has the potential for a much
bigger attack with its nature to collect personal and private data.

According to SANS, they have found more than four other trojans in
different brand of photo frames sold at Best-buy, Costco, Target, and
Sam¡¯s Club. Computer Associates also has traces of the virus backdoored
to a specific group in China. If you have concerns with recent purchase
of your digital photo frames, I suggest you read the report the how-to
and SANS contact information from San Francisco Chronicle.


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