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 backups were ...

A new strain of ransomware replaces the Master Boot Record (MBR) and encrypts the Master File Table on an infected Windows computer’s hard drive, thereby essentially locking a victim out of all of ...

MFTrecover is a file recovery tool for the Windows NTFS 3.1 file system, used since Windows XP through the latest Windows 11. The tool works by parsing Master File Table (MFT) entries and directly ...

A researcher may have found the quickest route to learning which files are encrypted in CryptoLocker ransomware infections. If CryptoLocker is teaching enterprise IT and security people anything, it’s ...

My Seagate Slave Drive ST3160023A has a Corrupted Master File Table. I am able to see the drive and partition, but not able to read the the file system. I have TestDisk, but not sure what needs to be ...