say they’re investigating links between the Greenbug cyber espionage group and a new series of Shamoon malware attacks in the Middle East. The malware, which was first uncovered in 2012 attacking energy companies in Saudi Arabia, overwrites files and the Master Boot Record (MBR) of infected machines, leaving infected devices unrecoverable.
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