New Shamoon malware variant in the wild

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Symantec has released a new warning after finding that an updated variant of malware Shamoon is in the wild. The new version — detected by the company as W32.Disttrack — wipes and destroys files as well as the master boot record (MBR) and changing the active partitions of an infected machine.

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