Cribbed from Slashdot today:
The Register reports on the first trojan using Sony’s DRM rootkit. A newly discovered variant of the Breplibot trojan makes use of the way Sony’s rootkit masks files whose filenames begin with ‘$sys$’. This means that any files renamed this way by the trojan are effectively invisible to the average user.
California has filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony and a second one may be filed today in New York. The lawsuit was filed Nov. 1 in Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles by Vernon, CA. It asks the court to prevent Sony from selling additional CDs protected by the anti-piracy software, and seeks monetary damages for California consumers who purchased them.
If you haven’t been following this story, certain Sony cds will automatically install spyware on your Windows computer when you play the CD with autorun; the spyware is completely hidden from you, and opens up your computer to further security vulnerabilities (”further”, because if you are running Windows, your PC is almost certainly already cracked anyway, unless you have taken specific security precautions.)
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