German customers of retail chain Tchibo got quite a bonus when buying a Hama-manufactured slide scanner: one of the most devastating pieces of malware in the past five years. According to a report by Heise Security, the Win32.Worm.Downadup.B (also known as Conficker.B) worm was hidden in the device’s SD card, along with a specially crafted autorun.inf file supposed to execute the worm when the card is plugg...

Adware, downloading Trojans, e-mailers and, of course, Downadup were all found in Germany...

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Six months after the initial Downadup outbreak, the number of infected systems is still growing, while media speculates about a possible collapse of compromised computers around the world on April Fools...

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