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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

Malware Getting Nastier Every Day

December 9, 2015

SC Magazine reports the discovery of malware that executes before the operating system boots. The sophisticated malware is called “BOOTRASH.” I have to admit…it’s some clever code. It’s not an easy task to modify the system Volume Boot Record (VBR) to hijack the system boot process. The code also hides itself in the VBR making detection a lot more difficult. The whole point of the malware is persistence so that it can survive reboots. Reinstalling the operating system won’t get rid of it either. You’ll have to wipe the entire disk and start over in order to eradicate BOOTRASH. Pretty nasty stuff.

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