The Shamoon disk-wiping malware has received a major upgrade during the past few months, and now features a ransomware module, along with support for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, researchers ...

Shamoon, also known as Disttrack, a malware family that's specialized in wiping data from hard drives, has returned with new attacks, and once more is taking aim at companies in Saudi Arabia.

Researchers have attributed a new wave of Shamoon disk wiper attacks to Iranian hacking group APT33. The attacks targeted several energy, telecoms and government organizations in the Middle East, ...

Whether you've replaced your computer's hard drive or are getting rid of an entire computer, it's important to wipe the old hard drive. Employing a hard drive wipe utility helps to ensure that ...

Here's how to make sure all the personal files and other data on your storage drive are erased and unrecoverable, whether you ...

The increased use of disk wipers in cyberattacks that began with Russia's invasion of Ukraine early last year has continued unabated, and the malware has transformed into a potent threat for ...

LokiLocker, a relatively new form of ransomware, uses the standard extortion-through-encryption racket but also incorporates disk-wiper functionality. Double extortion became a hit last year, when ...

A cyberespionage group focused on companies and organizations in the energy sector has recently updated its arsenal with a destructive data-wiping component and a backdoored SSH server. The group is ...

For anyone preparing to sell or recycle an external HDD, a professional guide on secure disposal calls full‑disk overwriting the most reliable way to sanitize a drive so that even advanced forensic ...