New Disk Wiping Malware Targets Israel
Apostle seems to be a new strain of malware that destroys data.
In a post published Tuesday, SentinelOne researchers said they assessed with high confidence that based on the code and the servers Apostle reported to, the malware was being used by a newly discovered group with ties to the Iranian government. While a ransomware note the researchers recovered suggested that Apostle had been used against a critical facility in the United Arab Emirates, the primary target was Israel.
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Hedo • May 26, 2021 10:07 AM
That’s a bad one. I sold a similar one back in the 90s to a good friend of mine. We had a “mutual” enemy (from SK&NK) that kept attempting to breach our Windows machines, so I thought, well, enough is enough, and infested their machines with a fine, fine, fine one, that kept duplicating/replicating (copy/pasta) all files on their systems and renaming them to the file names with file naming conventions that were “too long to handle” for their machines until the disks were full and unreadable/corrupted. A miracle happened: ever since that event, they stopped scanning our network for open ports.