The Shamoon disk-wiping malware has received a major upgrade during the past few months, and now features a ransomware module, along with support for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, researchers ...

Whether you've replaced your computer's hard drive or are getting rid of an entire computer, it's important to wipe the old hard drive. Employing a hard drive wipe utility helps to ensure that ...

Researchers have attributed a new wave of Shamoon disk wiper attacks to Iranian hacking group APT33. The attacks targeted several energy, telecoms and government organizations in the Middle East, ...

Shamoon, also known as Disttrack, a malware family that's specialized in wiping data from hard drives, has returned with new attacks, and once more is taking aim at companies in Saudi Arabia.

LokiLocker, a relatively new form of ransomware, uses the standard extortion-through-encryption racket but also incorporates disk-wiper functionality. Double extortion became a hit last year, when ...

The fact that reformatting a hard drive doesn’t completely erase the data stored on it is both a blessing and a curse depending on your circumstances. For example, if you reformat your hard drive ...

Supply chain attacks with a Dune sci-fi saga branding continue to spread across the open-source ecosystem, with a Microsoft package being among the latest target of worm-like malware that steals ...

ATLANTA, November 16, 2009 " When sensitive Lockheed Martin missile data was found on eBay-listed computers earlier this year, companies around the world began to rethink how they retire information ...