South Korean Banks, Media Companies Targeted by Destructive Malware | ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet | Scoop.it

 

A massive computer shutdown of two South Korean banks and media companies occurred Wednesday via an Internet malware attack. The malware wiped out the master boot records on the hard drives of the infected computers, overwriting the MBR with either one of these strings:

 

PRINCPES

PR!NCPES

HASTATI.