💻 ** Chernobyl virus turned 27 today, and it could brick your PC in ways modern malware can't by overwriting BIOS firmware **

27 years ago today, on April 26, 1999, a 1 KB virus called CIH detonated its payload on hundreds of thousands of Windows 9x machines worldwide.

🔗 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/the-chernobyl-virus-turned-27-today-and-it-could-brick-your-pc-in-ways-modern-malware-cant

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