HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Do cyberattacks cause physical damage to servers?


For example, do they reduce the lifetimes of SSDs significantly?


  👤 spansoa Accepted Answer ✓
The Wiper attacks mostly hit Windows boxes. Not sure about the likes of Linux servers, although Linux is not immune. But to answer your question: SSDs can survive a wiper/ransomware attack as they can endure a full wipe and then a re-install, even if that hampers further re-installs since cloud services love to use fresh from-the-factory hardware.

👤 PaulHoule
If they deliberately wrote a high volume of data to the SSD then they could decrease the lifetime.

👤 mardiyah
no at all