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. The tool, called ...

The first three months of 2013 have seen a surge in spam volume, as well as large numbers of samples of the Koobface social networking worm and master boot record (MBR) infecting malware, according to ...

Attackers are developing an aggressive new ransomware program for Windows machines that encrypts user files as well as the computer’s master boot record (MBR), leaving devices unable to load the OS.

Researchers from security firm Trusteer have found a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan program that infects a computer’s Master Boot Record (MBR) in order to achieve persistence. The Master Boot ...

HDDCryptor, sometimes spelled HDD Cryptor and also identified as Mamba, is a new ransomware variant that rewrites a computer's MBR (Master Boot Record) boot sectors and locks users out of their PCs.

Cisco Talos reports a new strain of spyware called Rombertik that escalates its anti-detection capabilities by destroying the Master Boot Record if the code is audited. A new strain of spyware that ...

Free project hosting service FossHub.com has been the target of an attack, with hackers replacing the downloads of two of its largest listed projects with a Master Boot Record (MBR)-overwriting Trojan ...

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. The tool, called ...