Okay so it’s not the batteries themselves that are in danger of infecting your machines but rather the software that comes with USB battery chargers.
According to the folks over at Sunbelt Software there is a warning out today from CERT that the Energizer DUO USB battery chargers have been found to be infected with a trojan that loads up backdoor malware when you install the battery monitoring software.
The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is warning that Energizer DUO USB battery chargers have been found infected with a Trojan that loads backdoor malware on a victim PC along with its battery monitoring software.
The charger copies a .dll file named UsbCharger.dll in the application’s directory and another named Arucer.dll in the Windows system32 directory. USBCharger sets a registry entry to autoexecute Arucer.dll when Windows starts.
Arucer.dll is a backdoor that communicates through TCP port 7777.
The charger has been sold worldwide for three years.
CERT notes that the Trojan contains Chinese language text.
Sunbelt detects it as Trojan.Arugizer.
CERT Vulnerability Note VU#154421 here.
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