Now trojans pre-installed in the hard drives too
Posted in Security by Sane on November 29th, 2005 After issues with Sony rootkits in the CDs, pre-installed trojans have been found from hard drives of a Japanese hard drive manufacturer. The trojan was found in portable hard drives of 40GB to 120GB range. The trojan was identified as Backdoor.Win32.Tompai
Following is excerpt from the blog entry on f-secure blog
Here’s an interesting one. Peripherals manufacturer I-O Data has shipped a series of nice-looking portable hard drives in the 40GB to 120GB range - carrying the Backdoor.Win32.Tompai trojan on them.
This simple trojan isn’t particularly new - we added detection for it in September 2004. However, somehow it managed to find it’s way to the master image that was preinstalled to every new hard drive. The manufacturer is now replacing them under warranty.
