Olympus Stylus Tough camera carries malware infection

Olympus Japan has issued a warning to customers who have bought its Stylus Tough 6010 digital compact camera that it comes with an unexpected extra – a virus on its internal memory card.

The first thing to point out is that the camera itself is not at risk – the autorun worm being carried on its internal memory can not activate on the Stylus Tough camera, but can attempt to infect your Windows PC.

In other words, users are at risk of infecting their Windows computers with the autorun worm when they plug the device into their USB drive, a method of transmission effectively identical to the infected Samsung Wave smartphones we reported on last week.

The next thing to recognise is that not all of the Olympus Stylus Tough 6010 cameras are affected. …

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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