A new malicious virus has been identified, another weapon of this war between Russia and Ukraine that is also being fought in cyberspace. His name is Isaac Wiper, and he has been detected in attacks on government organizations in Ukraine. The discovery is by researchers of the security company Eset, for the moment there is no evidence of similar incidents beyond the borders of that country.
According to Eset experts, Isaac Wiper is composed of a phase that infects local networks, then a ransomware that takes devices hostage but also acts as a diversion. “The tools suggest that the attacks have been planned for many months,” experts say from Eset. There is currently no known attribution to a specific hacker group.
Close to the conflict, two other ‘wiper’ type viruses have been identified, that is, they delete data, about which the Italian Cybersecurity Agency has also sounded the alarm. And just yesterday Microsoft announced that it had traced another virus called FoxBlade, which appeared in the cybernetic scenario just before the hours in which Russia invaded Ukraine.
Source: Ansa
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