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
The current “ransomware” campaign uses a novel approach to extort money from naive Internet users. Malware from cybercriminals infects personal computers by claiming to be a genuine Windows update. Once installed, this malware encrypts data on the hard drive and displays a message (see Figure 1) in German that translates to “Your system has been Read more…
Tags: .pre, locked-, malware, paycash, Ransomware, RC4 algorithm, realtec, ukash, windows malware, winsh
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