A new malware, Rombertik, is making headlines for its hostile response to investigation techniques. When it detects an attempt, it attacks the master boot record of the local hard drive. Share on ...
Like NotPetya, it overwrites the master boot record to render computers “trashed.” A new Windows malware has emerged that makes disks unusable by overwriting the master boot record (MBR). It takes its ...
Microsoft has detected a major malware wiper campaign targeting government, IT and non-profit organizations across Ukraine. Dubbed “WhisperGate,” the attacks were first spotted on January 13, at ...
LokiLocker, a relatively new form of ransomware, uses the standard extortion-through-encryption racket but also incorporates disk-wiper functionality. Double extortion became a hit last year, when ...