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 ...

It makes sense to reuse, recycle, give away or sell on fully functional phones and computers when you’ve upgraded to the next model. Unfortunately, unethical chancers can, have and will data-mine ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to the new "smart" TV that can't handle exFAT, I have to format a 64GB Samsung USB flash drive as NTFS. Seeing it going at 9MB/s, I got "greedy", and started a second file copy operation to the ...

Are you getting rid of your computer? You may have erased your private data by deleting files and reinstalling Windows, but you’re not quite done yet. Remember ...