Ars Technica - Risk Assessment: Shamoon disk-wiping malware can now destroy virtual desktops, too

Enlarge / A computer infected by Shamoon System is unable to find its operating system. (credit: Palo Alto Networks) There’s a new variant of the Shamoon disk-wiping malware that was originally unleashed on Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company in 2012, and it has a newly added ability to destroy virtual desktops, researchers said.

Article Link: http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/shamoon-disk-wiping-malware-can-now-destroy-virtual-desktops-too/