McDonald’s recently partnered with Coca Cola to hold an MP3 player giveaway in Japan. One caveat: all of the players came preloaded with nasty malware.

In all 10,000 winners were announced and each got a McD branded flash DAP preloaded with 10 tunes. However the MP3 players were infected with QQpass a very dangerous malware. So your PC is infected once you connect the DAP and it starts logging and transmitting username, passwords and other vital information

[via NewLaunches]

McDonald’s recently partnered with Coca Cola to hold an MP3 player giveaway in Japan. One caveat: all of the players came preloaded with nasty malware.

In all 10,000 winners were announced and each got a McD branded flash DAP preloaded with 10 tunes. However the MP3 players were infected with QQpass a very dangerous malware. So your PC is infected once you connect the DAP and it starts logging and transmitting username, passwords and other vital information

[via NewLaunches]

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