Damaged Goods: Why Wiping the Laptop Won’t Save You (opens in new tab)

Here’s the counterintuitive part: this malware doesn’t try to stick around. And that makes it more dangerous, not less. It’s a smash-and-grab. It runs, steals what it can, and gets out. Reboot the machine and the malware is gone. As Tom Pohl explains, that’s deliberate — the attacker doesn’t want you to connect yesterday’s “interview”…