Printer manufacturer infected customer PCs for months

Facepalm: Procolored builds high-end direct-to-film printers used for customizing t-shirts and other products. Recently, its official software delivered dangerous malware to customers' systems, exposing serious security flaws in what should be trusted professional-level equipment. Purchasing computer peripherals like printers should be a relatively safe experience. However, tech hobbyist Cameron Coward recently found that some ultra-high-end printers costing thousands of dollars were infecting PCs with malicious software. He uncovered the security threat while installing management software for a $6,000 Procolored printer. The software came on a USB flash drive included with the device, but his antivirus flagged it as carrying a USB-spreading worm known as Floxif. Coward contacted Procolored, but the company claimed the antivirus alert was a false positive. Unconvinced, he turned to Reddit for help. A malware analyst from G Data examined the software and uncovered several serious thr ... Read full article.