Jorge Arias is a field engineering technical lead with the McAfee Global Threat Response team and a malware researcher with McAfee Labs. He specializes in advanced malware analysis, specifically the static and dynamic analysis of suspicious samples. As part of his role, Arias helps communicate the scope of these threats to McAfee customers and the IT security community by creating descriptions of new viruses for McAfee Threat Advisories and sharing insights about malware behavior in regular blog posts. In his free time, Arias enjoys playing soccer, traveling, video games, and playing guitar. You can follow Arias on Twitter @Sairraj.
A massive computer shutdown of two South Korean banks and media companies occurred Wednesday via an Internet malware attack. The malware wiped out the master boot records on the hard drives of the infected computers, overwriting the MBR with either one of these strings: PRINCPES PR!NCPES HASTATI. Figure 1: Snapshot of MBR after infection. The Read more…
Tags: banks, malware, MBR, media, South Korea, targeted attack, Unix
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