Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-02-24 00:00:00
Affected organization: Undetermined
Affected country: Ukraine
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Sabotage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: ESET identified a further wiper in Ukrainian government networks, affecting organizations that had not been attacked by HermeticWiper and does not share any code similarity with it. On February 25, the attackers dropped a new version of IsaacWiper with debug logs, indicating that the attackers were unable to wipe some of the compromised machines. The malware was developed/employed at least since October 19, 2021.