boot record

[′büt ‚rek·ərd]

(computer science)

A special area of a floppy diskette or hard drive which is used by the computer during system startup.

boot sector

The first sector on a hard disk and in every disk partition. In a partitioned storage device such as a hard disk, the boot sector contains the "partition table." In a non-partitioned device such as a USB drive, the boot sector contains the "volume boot record" (VBR). See master boot record, partition table, MBR disk, GPT and boot.

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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.

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Shamoon disables computers by overwriting a file known as the master boot record, making it impossible for devices to start up.

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The attack would overwrite a victim's Master Boot Record, leaving them with no means of recovering their files.

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NotPetya's encryption process presents a fake chkdsk splash page, which encrypts the hard disk master boot record if a privileged user executes it.

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In May 2016 Kaspersky Lab discovered Petya ransomware that not only encrypts data stored on a computer, but also overwrites the hard disk drive's master boot record, leaving infected computers unable to boot into the operating system.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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overwrite the hard disk drive's master boot record (MBR), leaving infected

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