iPower Technologies, a U.S security company and network integrator, has discovered a copies of Conficker malware in the Martel Frontline Camera with GPS, one of the largest manufacturers of police in-car video systems in America, whose product is being sold and marketed as a body camera for official police department.
The Florida-based company, which is currently working to develop a cloud based video storage system for government agencies and police departments to store and search camera video, said that it had received cameras from the supplier Martel Electronics were loaded with 2009's baddest botware.
It was not the first time, the Conficker flaw was discovered in late 2008 when researchers found that the malware, which at that point had already infected millions of PCs, had been set to perform an unspecified update activity on April 1, 2009.
Jarrett Pavao and Charles Auchinleck, researchers from the security company, found that when the cameras were connected to a computer, they tried to execute the Worm ‘Win32/Conficker.B!inf variant’.
“When the camera was connected to a computer, iPower's antivirus software immediately caught the virus and quarantined it. However, if the computer did not have antivirus actively protecting the computer it would automatically run and start propagating itself through the network and internet, iPower said in a post.
"In the iPower virtual lab environment, packet captures were also run on the infected PC to view the viruses' network activity using Wireshark. The virus, classified as a worm virus, immediately started to attempt to spread to other machines on the iPower lab network, and also attempted several phone home calls to internet sites," the post added.
After the findings, iPower said to have tried to contact Martel Frontline Camera in order to report the flaws. However, the company concerned is yet to give any response.
