Even Replacing The Hard Drive Won T Remove This Malware
Dubbed MoonBounce by the security sleuths at Kaspersky who discovered it, the malware, technically called a bootkit, traverses beyond the hard disk and burrows itself in the computer’s Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot firmware. “The attack is very sophisticated,” Tomer Bar, Director of Security Research at SafeBreach, told Lifewire over email. “Once the victim is infected, it is very persistent since even a hard drive format won’t help.”...