The Petya ransomware encrypts a compromised computer’s master file table. First ransomware locked your desktop. Then it encrypted your files. Not long after, webservers, shared drives and ...

and encrypts the Master File Table on an infected Windows computer’s hard drive, thereby essentially locking a victim out of all of their files. Jasen Sumalapao, a malware analyst at Trend Micro, ...

Q: My four-year-old Windows 10 laptop has a weird problem when saving Microsoft Word files. In the last couple of months, the time it takes Word to save a file has gone from nearly instantaneous ...

Instead of encrypting a user’s files directly, it encrypts the master file table (MFT) used by NTFS disk partitions to hold information about file names, sizes and location on the physical disk.

Attackers are developing an aggressive new ransomware program for Windows machines that encrypts user files as well as ... encrypts the system’s master file table (MFT) — a special file ...

noticed that the NTFS Master File Table creation and file modified dates on the encrypted files were unchanged. He then compared those results to the Master File Table from the Windows file server ...

I have some client files I want to thoroughly purge from ... the file names are stored in the Master File Table (MFT). When a file is deleted, the MFT entry is marked as unused rather than purged.

MFT is Windows NTFS's Master File Table. This special file tracks all files on the volume, their logical location in folders, their physical location on the hard, and file metadata. But when ...

Attackers are developing an aggressive new ransomware program for Windows machines that encrypts user files as well as ... encrypts the system’s master file table (MFT) — a special file ...