The new Petya ransomware overwrites the master boot record (MBR) of the affected PCs, leaving their operating systems in an unbootable state, researchers from antivirus firm Trend Micro said in a ...

HDDCryptor encrypts files and overwrites the MBRs The infection process continues with dccon.exe and Mount.exe. Both these files use DiskCryptor to encrypt the user's files.

For the first time security researchers have spotted a type of malicious software that overwrites update functions for other applications, which could pose additional long-term risks for users.

Avira is reporting a new and disturbing malware sample which overwrites the MBR (Master Boot Record) and replaces it with a ransom request. The MBR ransomware is downloaded and installed by a ...

A new piece of malware known as Shamoon that has the ability to destroy files on infected machines and overwrite the master boot record has researchers scratching their heads, wondering what the ...

A micropatch has been released today for a vulnerability in Windows that allows overwriting files, even system one, with arbitrary data. The bug was disclosed on December 27 by the security ...

Overwrite is a free Windows software that overwrites data & metadata, as well as the empty space on your disk, so that the data becomes irretrievable. You see, the program uses -dirs and -data ...