Malware that uses open source tools for malicious purposes isn’t new, yet ransomware leveraging such tools to encrypt the entire hard drive by rewriting the MBR (Master Boot Record) is, researchers ...

This little python script is an helper for handling MBR/GPT file. It takes a file that contains a valid MBR partition (protective MBR for GPT) and print out ...

Ransomware threat has risen exponentially so much that ransomware authors have started abusing the MBR in their attacks to lock down your entire computer instead of just encrypting your important ...

Each mbr data file is made up of 2,027,520 mbr packets. The mbr packet is 1056 bytes long. The first 32 bytes in mbr packet is the header which stores information like Observation ID, Source Name, ...

Many high-end games, professional software, and cloud security applications now require Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 features, which are only supported when the system disk uses the GPT partition format.