A glut of wiper malware hits Ukrainian targets

ESET researchers have discovered yet another wiper malware used to target Ukrainian organizations. Dubbed SwiftSlicer, it is thought to be wielded by the Sandworm APT. Simultaneously, the Ukranian CERT has confirmed that the attackers who recently aimed to disrupting the operation of the National News Agency of Ukraine (Ukrinform) used various wiper malware and one legitimate Windows command line utility to try to “destroy” machines running different operating systems. They believe the Sandworm team was … More

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