US-based iPower Technologies has discovered that body cameras sold by Martel Electronics come pre-installed with the Conficker worm (Win32/Conficker.B!inf). 
The particular line of iPower body cameras tested is the same one sold to US police forces, which is used by officers on street patrol and SWAT team members in their operations.
The model, Frontline Body Camera, is worn on a police officer's chest and works by recording their activities on video, their location, using a GPS tracker and taking regular snapshots as images. The camera records the data to an internal unit, from where the officer or his superiors can download it to a computer via a USB cable.
According to iPower's account, that's when they discovered the infection. The company's IT team was evaluating a new batch of body cameras they had just received from Martel, and after opening it and connecting it to a computer, they were alerted by their security team about the Conficker infection.
As malware goes, Conficker is a dinosaur compared to current threats.
Most antivirus engines detect it today, and very few criminal groups use it because of this. If they do, they usually deploy it to help spread infections, as Conficker is very capable of spreading quickly across local networks and disabling local protection. Furthermore, since its detection rate is high, Conficker can be very useful, especially today, due to the increasing number of IoT (Internet of Things) devices.
Since almost no IoT devices can run security products and are typically programmed without paying too much attention to self-protection measures, Conficker may be as effective in 2015 as it was in 2008 and 2009.
While the worm is almost useless on personal computers because built-in security updates have included it in Windows for a long time, modern Internet-connected equipment is ready for the download.
iPower said it contacted Martel but did not receive a response before publishing its findings a day later. Below is a video of the truth recorded by the iPower team.
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Below is a video demonstration of the Martel Frontline body camera.
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