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
We have seen many discussions of the MyBios “Bioskit” discovered at the end of 2011. MyBios was the first malware to successfully infect the Award BIOS and survive the reboot. It was first discovered by a Chinese security company; many other security vendors published detailed analyses after that. We have seen a lot of samples Read more…
Tags: award, Bios, Bioskit, bootkit, Flash, malware, master boot record, MBR, Mybios, Niwa, reinfect mbr, rootkit, survive reboot, windows malware
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