IBM ships malware infected flash drives to Storwize customers

IBM is warning customers of its Storwize hybrid enterprise storage solutions that it has accidentally sent out some malware infected USB sticks. Companies ordering the Storwize V3500, V3700 and V5000 Gen 1 flash storage solutions may have been sent the infected sticks. The malware is contained in the directory for the initialization tool and when the tool is run it gets copied to a temporary directory on the computer’s hard drive. The malware doesn't target the storage system itself and it doesn't run automatically but, if launched, it will try to infect the Windows system it's on and may download… [Continue Reading]