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Computer Malware : Try To Flood Hard Drive Data To Affect PC

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A computer virus that tries to avoid detection by making the machine it infects unusable has been found.

If Rombertik’s evasion techniques are triggered, it deletes key files on a computer, making it constantly restart.

Analysts said Rombertik was “unique” among malware samples for resisting capture so aggressively.

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On Windows machines where it goes unnoticed, the malware steals login data and other confidential information.

Endless loop

Rombertik typically infected a vulnerable machine after a booby-trapped attachment on a phishing message had been opened, security researchers Ben Baker and Alex Chiu, from Cisco, said in a blogpost.

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Some of the messages Rombertik travels with pose as business enquiry letters from Microsoft.

The malware “indiscriminately” stole data entered by victims on any website, the researchers said.

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