Can security programs detect HermeticWiper?
The Austrian IT security test laboratory AV-Comparatives has tested the protection against the recently discovered malware HermeticWiper. The data-wiping malware has been used in international targeted attacks, such as in Ukraine. Their goal is not to steal money or data, but simply to render victims' computers unusable. HermeticWiper abuses the services of a legitimate company that produces hard drive partitioning software. This type of utility can create, modify and delete the data storage areas (partitions) on a computer's system disk. HermeticWiper uses (unauthorized) this useful utility to copy the boot information of the system disk...
