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Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices

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Enlarge Mayors' offices and courts in Russia are under attack by never-before-seen malware that poses as ransomware but is actually a wiper that permanently destroys data on an infected system, according to security company Kaspersky and the Izvestia news service. Kaspersky researchers have named the wiper CryWiper, a nod …