Wiper malware from no fewer than 9 families has appeared this year. Now there are 2 more.
DAN GOODIN - 12/12/2022
Over the past year, a flurry of destructive wiper malware from no fewer than nine families has appeared. In the past week, researchers cataloged at least two more, both exhibiting advanced codebases designed to inflict maximum damage.
On Monday, researchers from Check Point Research published details of Azov, a previously unseen piece of malware that the company described as an “effective, fast, and unfortunately unrecoverable data wiper.” Files are wiped in blocks of 666 bytes by overwriting them with random data, leaving an identically sized block intact, and so on. The malware uses the uninitialized local variable char buffer[666].
