IBM have issued an alert about StorWize USBs it supplied, which may contain malicious code.
Abstract
IBM has detected that some USB flash drives containing the initialization tool shipped with the IBM Storwize V3500, V3700 and V5000 Gen 1 systems contain a file that has been infected with malicious code.
Content
Affected Products
The Initialization Tool on the USB flash drive with the partnumber 01AC585 that shipped with the following System models may have an infected file:
IBM Storwize V3500 – 2071 models 02A and 10A
IBM Storwize V3700 – 2072 models 12C, 24C and 2DC
IBM Storwize V5000 – 2077 models 12C and 24C
IBM Storwize V5000 – 2078 models 12C and 24C
IBM Storwize Systems with serial numbers starting with the characters 78D2 are not affected.
Neither the IBM Storwize storage systems nor data stored on these systems are infected by this malicious code.
Systems not listed above and USB flash drives used for Encryption Key management are not affected by this issue.
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