Microsoft is warning of destructive data-wiping malware disguised as ransomware being used in attacks against multiple organizations in Ukraine.
A new sample of Shamoon disk-wiping malware was uploaded from France recently to the VirusTotal scanning platform. It tries to pass as a system optimization tool from Chinese technology company Baidu.
On August 2nd 2016, for three hours, an external developer had their account compromised on Audacity's and Classic Shell's download server FossHub and was used to replace the legitimate installer with a malware that overwrite the master boot record.