A Japanese hardware manufacturer has shipped a batch of hard disk drives containing a Trojan. The Trojan, which we detect as Backdoor.Win32.Tompai, provides a hacker with backdoor access to affected machines. Its not the first time that weve seen the distribution of infected media:in December 2004, Roel reported on an infected HDD-based MP3 player he had bought from iRiver iRiver. Maybe we’re approaching the time when digital photographers should check their flash cards before using them?”]
Source: https://securelist.com/get-infected-in-a-flash/30101/