Warning! Seagate Wireless Hard Drives Have a Secret Backdoor for Hackers

Several of Seagate's 3rd generation Wireless Hard drives have a secret backdoor for hackers that puts users' data at risk.



A Recent study done by the security researchers at Tangible Security firm disclosed an “undocumented Telnet services” with a hard-coded password in Seagate Wireless Hard Drives.



The secret Telnet Vulnerability (CVE-2015-2874) with an inbuilt user account (default

NSA Planted Stuxnet-Type Malware Deep Within Hard Drive Firmware

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) may be hiding highly-sophisticated hacking payloads in the firmware of consumer hard drives over the last 15 to 20 years in a campaign, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on thousands of targets’ computers, according to an analysis by Kaspersky labs and subsequent reports.



'EQUATION GROUP' BEHIND THE MALWARE

The team of malicious actors is