BLOOMBERG: A devastatingly thorough cyberattack on the media giant is leaving experts wondering who is responsible.
BLOOMBERG: A devastatingly thorough cyberattack on the media giant is leaving experts wondering who is responsible.
“Destructive malware used by unknown computer network exploitation (CNE) operators has been identified,” the alert warns. “This malware has the capability to overwrite a victim host’s master boot record (MBR) and all data files. The overwriting of the data files will make it extremely difficult and costly, if not impossible, to recover the data using standard forensic methods.”
The memo also includes computer code to watch out for, suggesting the FBI fears the form of the Sony attack could be replicated against other entities.
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