New Trojan Released to Exploit SONY's CD Music DRM

Following the previous post about Sony's new DRM, a new trojan has been reported to exploit the root kit software that the Sony's DRM technology installs when playing the music CD. The new Trojan called Stinx had been reportedly spammed to UK email addresses thereby raising the risk of computers there being compromised.

Apparently spokepersons for Sony claims that the risk is very low right now - as the CD has to be purchased in the US with the DRM technology built into the CDs there. Nonetheless, it is curious that has been openly admitted that their DRM does open the PCs of users to criminal hackers. I think Sony will be relooking carefully their strategy on the use of this version of DRM.

Silicon.com - New Trojan exploits Sony DRM anti-piracy tool