The new wave of cyber attacks may actually encrypt your data or reformat your hard drive.
New Cyber Attacks May Target Your PC : Read more
New Cyber Attacks May Target Your PC : Read more
Over the course of the week, more details have surfaced on how the three waves of attacks have taken place. The perpetrators used a virus that infected many PCs worldwide, thus creating a nasty botnet. This past weekend, the botnet was activated and began to flood the targeted websites with massive amounts of requests, overloading the servers and knocking many websites offline. Now it's believed that many of those infected PCs will "self-terminate" by wiping out the hard drives sector by sector, or encrypting user data.