Researchers at security firm CyberX have recently discovered a variant of the KillDisk malware that also implements ransomware features. KillDisk is a malware that has been used in attacks against industrial control systems (ICS), it was developed to wipe the hard drives of the infected machine in order to make it inoperable.
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