A new strain of the Shamoon 2 malware was spotted by the security experts at Palo Alto Networks, this variant targets virtualization products. Shamoon, also known as Disttrack, was first spotted in a wave of attacks that targeted companies in Saudi Arabia in 2012. In the 2012 attacks, threat actors used images of a burning U.S. flag to overwrite the drives of victims. The Shamoon hackers were likely working on behalf of the Iranian government in the 2012 campaign and the more-recent attacks will continue, experts say.”]
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