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	"title": "Taiwanese cops give malware-laden USB sticks as prizes for security quiz",
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	"plain_text": "Taiwanese cops give malware-laden USB sticks as prizes for\r\nsecurity quiz\r\nBy Richard Chirgwin\r\nPublished: 2018-01-10 · Archived: 2026-04-05 22:44:27 UTC\r\nWinners of a security quiz staged by Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau may be wondering why they tried so\r\nhard to do well after some of the USB drives handed out as prizes turned out to be wretched hives of malware and\r\nvillainy.\r\nAccording to the Taipei Times, the Bureau hosted an infosec event in December 2017, and gave 250 drives to\r\npeople who won a cybersecurity quiz.\r\nIt's since emerged that 54 of the 8GB drives were infected by a computer used by an employee of supplier Shawo\r\nHwa Industries Co “to transfer an operating system to the drives and test their storage capacity”.\r\nWhile the dongles were manufactured in China, the Taipei Times said there's no suggestion that espionage was a\r\nmotive.\r\nThe good news is that the infection was an old virus Chinese-language site Liberty Times names as\r\n“XtbSeDuA.exe” that tries to steal personal data from 32-bit machines.\r\nThe CIB says stolen data was forwarded to a relay IP address in Poland which in 2015 was associated with 2015\r\nEuropol raids on an electronic funds fraud ring. The police added that the server receiving the data from the latest\r\ninfections has been shut down.\r\nThe prizes were handed out from December 11 to December 12, when complaints from the public started arriving,\r\nbut 34 of the drives are still in circulation somewhere. ®\r\nSource: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/10/taiwanese_police_malware/\r\nhttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/10/taiwanese_police_malware/\r\nPage 1 of 1",
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