How many times have you looked past the security signs that warn you that installing particular software could be dangerous for your computer? How many of us run untested programs with administrator privileges? In all likelihood, you would have done it countless times. In all honesty, we all have. Some users don’t even have an antivirus program installed or a firewall enabled. Now, a hacker group that goes by the name of Pegglecrew has shown us how this carelessness can cost us our important data.
If you visited the website FossHub on Tuesday and downloaded either Classic Shell or audio editing software Audacity, you are at risk of having downloaded a Trojan that rewrites the user’s Master Boot Record (MBR) for Windows, and although nothing seems to happen at first, on rebooting the PC, you will find the following message:
As you reboot, you find that something has overwritten your MBR! It is a sad thing your adventures have ended here! Direct all hate to Pegglecrew (@cultofrazer on Twitter)
Notably, the @CultofRazer Twitter handle actually belongs to gaming firm Razer, and was hijacked for a while by the Pegglecrew team. The tweets posted detailing exploits have since been removed. For the full article click here
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