Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-03-14 00:00:00
Affected organization: Undetermined
Affected country: Ukraine
Industry: Finance and Insurance
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: GRU Main Special Center for Special Technologies (Unit 74455) (SANDWORM)
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: ESET researchers have uncovered yet another destructive data wiper that was used in attacks against a limited number of organizations in Ukraine. No code similarities to either HermeticWiper or IsaacWiper were identified. There's evidence to suggest that the threat actors behind CaddyWiper infiltrated the target's network before executing the wiper.