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A phishing attempt, in this case malware disguised as an email document, looks to have been the catalyst for the recent cyber attack on a number of broadcasting stations and banks in South Korea. In a report from Trend Micro, the company notes how the phishing attempt was made to look like an email from a bank. The malware itself was designed to download 9 files from different addresses while masking the download routines on a fake webpage. The malware’s weapon, was a master boot record (MBR) wiper that lay dormant until a specfied time, then overwrote the MBRs of computers then forced a restart. Due to the damage to the MBR, computers and related systems could not reboot.
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