DooKey
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Purdue researchers have come up with a way to block disk-wipe malware from carrying out its dirty mission and they call it R2D2. R2D2 is short for Reactive Redundancy for Data Destruction Protection and it can analyze write buffers before they take action and then block destructive writes. All of this is done with minimal latency for batch tasks and up to an additional 20 percent latency for interactive tasks. Files on a whitelist are allowed to be written over and those on the blacklist are preserved. All in all this sounds like something that would work hand in hand with a good backup regimen. You can check out the pre-press version of the paper here.
The system has been tested against various secure delete tools and malware like Shamoon and Stonedrill, and they claim complete success against “all the wiper malware samples in the wild that we experimented with”.
The system has been tested against various secure delete tools and malware like Shamoon and Stonedrill, and they claim complete success against “all the wiper malware samples in the wild that we experimented with”.