Seculert discovered a new attack targeting several specific companies in a few industries. The attack is called “Shamoon,” due to a string of a folder name within the malware executable (“C:\Shamoon\ArabianGulf\wiper\release\wiper.pdb”). The interesting part of this malware is that instead of staying under the radar and collecting information, the malware was designed to overwrite and wipe the files and the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the computer. Why would someone wipe files in a targeted attack and make the machine unusable? Blog: http://www.seculert.com/blog/2012/08/shamoon-two-stage-targeted-attack.html