In the second half of 2016, ESET researchers identified a unique malicious toolset that was used in targeted cyberattacks against high-value targets in the Ukrainian financial sector. We believe that ...

Researchers have discovered a Linux variant of the KillDisk ransomware, which itself is a new addition to the KillDisk disk wiper malware family, previously used only to sabotage companies by randomly ...

ESET researchers have discovered a Linux variant of the KillDisk malware that was used in Ukraine in attacks against the country’s critical infrastructure in late 2015 and against a number of targets ...

A security company has found a new variant of the KillDisk malware that encrypts files on Linux systems. It poses as ransomware but does not include a decryption mechanism. Eset says it has found a ...

A senior research fellow at the security company ESET has cast doubts on whether a new variant of the KillDisk malware is really ransomware, saying whatever ransomware characteristics it exhibits may ...

In an ominous but unsurprising development, threat actors appear to have begun targeting industrial companies in ransomware campaigns. Security firm CyberX’s threat intelligence research team recently ...

Last week I made my first sizable work mistake: I wiped the USB drive with a custom NixOS build using KillDisk for properly wiping drives for surplus. With the team's inability to remember where the ...