Backdoor Wipes MBR, Locks System Among Other Things | Security Intelligence Blog | Trend Micro（情報元のブックマーク数）

バックドアがMBRを削除するとか凶悪・・・

German users are at risk of having their systems rendered unusable by a malware that we’re seeing being sent via spam messages. This particular malware, on top of its ability to remotely control an affected system, is able to wipe out the Master Boot Record – a routine that had previously caused a great crisis in South Korea. We recently uncovered this noteworthy backdoor as an attached file in certain spam variants. The spam sample we found is in German and forces recipients to pay for a certain debt, the details of which are contained in the attachment. Those who open the attachment are actually tricked into executing the malware, in this instance, a backdoor.

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