On Monday, February 16, Kaspersky Lab published a research report about an advanced cyber-espionage program, in which the products of multiple storage device manufacturers, including Western Digital, were identified.
Prior to the report, we had no knowledge of the described cyber-espionage program. We take such threats very seriously and the integrity of our products is of vital importance to us.
The report indicated that the claimed hard drive exploit is very rare, even among the limited number of machines purported to be targeted by the described advanced threat actor. Kaspersky Lab has since further stated that “…it’s not feasible to use this kind of stealth technologies in criminal malware or even most targeted attacks.”
We take measures to deter tampering and reverse engineering of our hard drive firmware. We are continuously exploring how to better protect our customers’ data. The security of their data is of paramount importance to us.
