Were you given a digital photo frame over the holiday?

Did you connect it to your computer?  You may be PWN3D:

An insidious computer virus recently discovered on digital photo frames has been identified as a powerful new Trojan Horse from China that collects passwords for online games - and its designers might have larger targets in mind.
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The initial reports of infected frames came from people who had bought them over the holidays from Sam's Club and Best Buy.  New reports involve frames sold at Target and Costco, according to SANS, a group of security researchers in Bethesda, Md., who began asking for accounts of infected devices on Christmas Day.
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...the researchers also found four other, older Trojans on each frame, which may serve as markers for botnets - networks of infected PCs that are remotely controlled by hackers. - San Francisco Chronicle

It's the old autorun game...

Best Buy should have been alert for this kind of stuff already.  The mass merchants (Sam's Club, Target, and Costco) had better learn quickly.

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Via:  Instapundit

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