Blog Posts Tagged with "Wiper"
Three Days of The Condor... With Malware
September 07, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
Pandora’s box has been opened. All the players are taking the field, and many of them may not be ready to play a proper game… Shamoon did it’s thing, but it seems to be more a brute force tool than an elegant piece of code and a slick plan. The blowback though is yet to be determined...
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ICS-CERT: Shamoon - DistTrack Malware
August 30, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
W32.DistTrack, also known as “Shamoon,” is an information-stealing malware that also includes a destructive module. Shamoon renders infected systems useless by overwriting the Master Boot Record (MBR), the partition tables, and most of the files with random data. Once overwritten, the data are not recoverable...
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Who's Responsible for the Saudi Aramco Network Attack?
August 28, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Iran is at the center of every significant aspect of this attack. It is the only nation with access to the original Wiper virus from which Shamoon was copied. Perhaps Iran has learned something from Russia about the strategy of misdirection via the government's recruitment of patriotic hackers...
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Shamoon Malware: Cyber Espionage Tool or Cyber Weapon
August 20, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
Many hypotheses have been proposed, and some experts are convinced that Shamoon is a new state sponsored malware designed for cyber espionage that is also able to destroy the victims' device, perhaps to hide its operations by deleting evidence that can link the agents to the Command & Control servers...
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