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> In this attack, the software displayed an image of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned fleeing the conflict in Syria I'm not sure what to m
by elastic_church 10y ago
> In this attack, the software displayed an image of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy who drowned fleeing the conflict in Syria
I'm not sure what to make of this. What would the end game for this possibly be, it simply overwrites the master boot record making the computer it infects inoperable. "Central Bank" seems to be a red herring, but then again I could be over estimating data redundancy of government systems.
- lazaroclapp 10y agoI also don't get what is so impressive about overwriting the MBR. This hardly even bricks the individual computer, just UEFI to boot from the network, re-image the machine and restore the backup from literally hours ago after you know for sure you removed the malware from the image (or restore only non-executable data and use a clean image for the OS). What is the point of a cyberweapon like this that doesn't even persist itself on firmware?