Wiper

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2018
Olympic Destroyer was involved in a new wave of cyber attacks

Olympic Destroyer, the malicious code that was used in attacks against Winter Games in Pyeongchang, was involved in a new wave of cyber attacks. The same malware used in recent Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, tracked as Olympic Destroyer, has been used in a new wave of attacks against organizations in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2018
Crooks used a KilllDisk wiper in an attack against Banco de Chile as diversion for a SWIFT hack

Crooks attempted to hack the SWIFT system at the Banco de Chile and used a disk-wiping malware as a diversion strategy. The intent of the attackers was to sabotage hundreds of computers at the Banco de Chile while they were attempting to breach the real target, the bank’s SWIFT money transferring system. Causing a broad outage, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2018
Hackers tried to cause a blast at a Saudi petrochemical plant

A new cyber attack against a Saudi petrochemical plant made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure in August. Do you remember the powerful cyber attack that in 2012 hit computers at Saudi Aramco? A new cyber attack against a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia made the headlines, hackers attempted to hit the infrastructure in August. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2018
New KillDisk variant targets Windows machines in financial organizations in Latin America

A new variant of the infamous disk-wiper malware KillDisk has been spotted by malware researchers at Trend Micro while targeting financial organizations in Latin America. A new variant of the infamous disk-wiper malware KillDisk has been spotted by malware researchers at Trend Micro. This variant of KillDisk, tracked as TROJ_KILLDISK.IUB, was involved in cyber attacks against financial […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2017
Ordinypt is a wiper disguised as ransomware that targets German users

Security experts spotted a new malware dubbed Ordinypt, it is a wiper disguised as ransomware that currently only targets German users The malware researcher Michael Gillespie first reported a new strain of malware called Ordinypt that is currently targeting German users, but unfortunately instead of encrypting users’ files, the malware intentionally destroy them. Tweets by demonslay335 Early this […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2017
MBR-ONI ransomware involved in targeted attacks against Japanese organizations

MBR-ONI is a new ransomware that is being used for targeted attacks in Japan, experts speculate it was used to cover larger hacking campaigns. MBR-ONI is a new ransomware that is being used for targeted attacks in Japan, it is a bootkit ransomware that uses a modified version of the legitimate open-source disk encryption utility DiskCryptor to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 14, 2017
Security Service of Ukraine of a new wave of large-scale NotPetya-like attack

The Security Service of Ukraine warning their citizens of a new “large-scale” cyber attack similar to NotPetya that could take place between Oct 13 and 17 In June the NotPetya ransomware compromised thousands of businesses and organizations worldwide, most of them in Ukraine. Now, the Ukrainian authorities warning their citizens of a new “large-scale” cyber attack similar to NotPetya. The Ukrainian Secret […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2017
RedBoot ransomware also modifies partition table, is it a wiper?

The RedBoot ransomware encrypts files on the infected computer, replaces the Master Boot Record and then modifies the partition table. Malware Blocker researcher discovered a new bootlocker ransomware, dubbed RedBoot, that encrypts files on the infected computer, replaces the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the system drive and then modifies the partition table. The experts noticed that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2017
The Ukrainian central bank warned of new NotPetya-style massive attack risk

The Ukrainian central bank warned state-owned and private lenders of the appearance of new the NotPetya-like attack that would target national businesses. On Friday, the Ukrainian central bank warned of new malware-based attack risk. According to the Reuters, the Ukrainian central bank warned state-owned and private lenders of the spreading of new infections like the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2017
Anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian IsraBye wiper spreads as a ransomware

Malware researchers discovered an anti-Israel & pro-Palestinian data wiper dubbed IsraBye that is spreading as a ransomware. Malware researcher Jakub Kroustek from Avast has recently discovered an anti-Israel & pro-Palestinian data wiper dubbed IsraBye. Even if the lock screen claims that the files can be recovered, their content is replaced with an anti-Israel message. This is […]