Hard disk woes

2011-10-01

Jorge Lodos

Segurmatica, Cuba

Jesús. Villabrille

Segurmatica, Cuba

Edgar Guadis

Segurmatica, Cuba
Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

It is uncommon these days to find malware whose sole purpose is to cause damage, but W32.VRBAT does just that (and only that) - using ATA disk security to render hard disks useless. Jorge Lodos and his colleagues have the details.

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