Unlike previous Shamoon attacks, he said that latest attacks involved a second piece of wiping malware that deletes and overwrite files on the infected computer after which Shamoon will erase the master
boot record of the computer, thus making it unusable.
NotPetya's encryption process presents a fake chkdsk splash page, which encrypts the hard disk master
boot record if a privileged user executes it.
The end result of ransomware is to lock up the files on infected machines and demand a ransom to retrieve the data, though the true goals of the NotPetya creators may have been disruption rather than monetary gain, NotPetya's encryption process presents a fake chkdsk splash page, which encrypts the hard disk master
boot record if a privileged user executes it.
This virus restarts the victim's device, encrypts the Master File Table, and exchanges the Master
Boot Record with a series of malicious software instructions that shuts down the device.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Cisco Systems' Talos team has developed an open-source tool that can protect the master
boot record of Windows computers from modification by ransomware and other malicious attacks.