- Jun 9, 2013
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When it comes to matters of justice, we’d all like to think that we can trust a lawyer, but an interesting case in Arkansas suggests that may not be such a wise idea:
When Matthew Campbell of the Pinnacle Law Firm in North Little Rock – currently representing three police whistleblowers – received an external hard drive via Federal Express from a law enforcement attorney, he claims he found an unusual surprise on the device – malware.
“Something didn’t add up in the way they approached it, so I sent it to my software guy first,” Campbell said to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “I thought ‘I’m not plugging that into my computer,’ so I sent it to [a software expert] to inspect.”
When consultant Geoff Mueller, manager of information security at the Lower Colorado River Authority, looked at the hard drive he discovered four Trojans, one of which was a duplicate:
When it comes to matters of justice, we’d all like to think that we can trust a lawyer, but an interesting case in Arkansas suggests that may not be such a wise idea:
When Matthew Campbell of the Pinnacle Law Firm in North Little Rock – currently representing three police whistleblowers – received an external hard drive via Federal Express from a law enforcement attorney, he claims he found an unusual surprise on the device – malware.
“Something didn’t add up in the way they approached it, so I sent it to my software guy first,” Campbell said to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “I thought ‘I’m not plugging that into my computer,’ so I sent it to [a software expert] to inspect.”
When consultant Geoff Mueller, manager of information security at the Lower Colorado River Authority, looked at the hard drive he discovered four Trojans, one of which was a duplicate:
When Matthew Campbell of the Pinnacle Law Firm in North Little Rock – currently representing three police whistleblowers – received an external hard drive via Federal Express from a law enforcement attorney, he claims he found an unusual surprise on the device – malware.
“Something didn’t add up in the way they approached it, so I sent it to my software guy first,” Campbell said to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “I thought ‘I’m not plugging that into my computer,’ so I sent it to [a software expert] to inspect.”
When consultant Geoff Mueller, manager of information security at the Lower Colorado River Authority, looked at the hard drive he discovered four Trojans, one of which was a duplicate:
When Matthew Campbell of the Pinnacle Law Firm in North Little Rock – currently representing three police whistleblowers – received an external hard drive via Federal Express from a law enforcement attorney, he claims he found an unusual surprise on the device – malware.
“Something didn’t add up in the way they approached it, so I sent it to my software guy first,” Campbell said to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “I thought ‘I’m not plugging that into my computer,’ so I sent it to [a software expert] to inspect.”
When consultant Geoff Mueller, manager of information security at the Lower Colorado River Authority, looked at the hard drive he discovered four Trojans, one of which was a duplicate:
- Win32:Zbot-AVH[Trj] – designed to steal Campbell’s passwords and install a backdoor
- NSIS
ownloader-CC[Trj] – A downloader capable of introducing additional malware to the system - Two instances of Win32Cycbot-NF[Trj] – Another backdoor designed to give an attacker a access to the system
When it comes to matters of justice, we’d all like to think that we can trust a lawyer, but an interesting case in Arkansas suggests that may not be such a wise idea:
When Matthew Campbell of the Pinnacle Law Firm in North Little Rock – currently representing three police whistleblowers – received an external hard drive via Federal Express from a law enforcement attorney, he claims he found an unusual surprise on the device – malware.
“Something didn’t add up in the way they approached it, so I sent it to my software guy first,” Campbell said to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “I thought ‘I’m not plugging that into my computer,’ so I sent it to [a software expert] to inspect.”
When consultant Geoff Mueller, manager of information security at the Lower Colorado River Authority, looked at the hard drive he discovered four Trojans, one of which was a duplicate:
- Win32:Zbot-AVH[Trj] – designed to steal Campbell’s passwords and install a backdoor
- NSISownloader-CC[Trj] – A downloader capable of introducing additional malware to the system
- Two instances of Win32Cycbot-NF[Trj] – Another backdoor designed to give an attacker a access to the system
When Matthew Campbell of the Pinnacle Law Firm in North Little Rock – currently representing three police whistleblowers – received an external hard drive via Federal Express from a law enforcement attorney, he claims he found an unusual surprise on the device – malware.
“Something didn’t add up in the way they approached it, so I sent it to my software guy first,” Campbell said to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “I thought ‘I’m not plugging that into my computer,’ so I sent it to [a software expert] to inspect.”
When consultant Geoff Mueller, manager of information security at the Lower Colorado River Authority, looked at the hard drive he discovered four Trojans, one of which was a duplicate:
- Win32:Zbot-AVH[Trj] – designed to steal Campbell’s passwords and install a backdoor
- NSISownloader-CC[Trj] – A downloader capable of introducing additional malware to the system
- Two instances of Win32Cycbot-NF[Trj] – Another backdoor designed to give an attacker a access to the system
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