Latest Data Wiper news

Former IT employee gets 2.5 years for wiping 180 virtual servers

A former quality assurance employee of National Computer Systems (NCS) was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison for reportedly deleting 180 virtual servers after being fired.
- Bill Toulas
- June 14, 2024
- 11:51 AM
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New BiBi Wiper version also destroys the disk partition table

A new version of the BiBi Wiper malware is now deleting the disk partition table to make data restoration harder, extending the downtime for targeted victims.
- Bill Toulas
- May 20, 2024
- 12:06 PM
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New AcidPour data wiper targets Linux x86 network devices

A new destructive malware named AcidPour was spotted in the wild, featuring data-wiper functionality and targeting Linux x86 IoT and networking devices.
- Bill Toulas
- March 19, 2024
- 10:33 AM
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Ukraine: Hack wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research center

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense claims that pro-Ukrainian hacktivists breached the Russian Center for Space Hydrometeorology, aka "planeta" (планета), and wiped 2 petabytes of data.
- Bill Toulas
- January 26, 2024
- 11:59 AM
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Fake F5 BIG-IP zero-day warning emails push data wipers

The Israel National Cyber Directorate warns of phishing emails pretending to be F5 BIG-IP zero-day security updates that deploy Windows and Linux data wipers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 20, 2023
- 04:52 PM
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Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos

Miklos Daniel Brody, a cloud engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison and a restitution of $529,000 for wiping the code repositories of his former employer in retaliation for being fired by the company.
- Bill Toulas
- December 12, 2023
- 10:02 AM
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Israel warns of BiBi wiper attacks targeting Linux and Windows

Data-wiping attacks are becoming more frequent on Israeli computers as researchers discovered variants of the BiBi malware family that destroys data on both Linux and Windows systems.
- Bill Toulas
- November 13, 2023
- 11:53 AM
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New BiBi-Linux wiper malware targets Israeli orgs in destructive attacks

A new malware wiper known as BiBi-Linux is being used to destroy data in attacks targeting Linux systems belonging to Israeli companies.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 30, 2023
- 12:53 PM
- 0
Microsoft links data wiping attacks to new Russian GRU hacking group

Microsoft has linked a threat group it tracks as Cadet Blizzard since April 2023 to Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU).
- Sergiu Gatlan
- June 14, 2023
- 01:27 PM
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Russian hackers use WinRAR to wipe Ukraine state agency’s data

The Russian 'Sandworm' hacking group has been linked to an attack on Ukrainian state networks where WinRar was used to destroy data on government devices.
- Bill Toulas
- May 03, 2023
- 04:41 PM
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Hackers use new SwiftSlicer wiper to destroy Windows domains

Security researchers have identified a new data-wiping malware they named SwiftSlicer that aims to overwrite crucial files used by the Windows operating system.
- Ionut Ilascu
- January 28, 2023
- 10:21 AM
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Ukraine: Sandworm hackers hit news agency with 5 data wipers

The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) found a cocktail of five different data-wiping malware strains deployed on the network of the country's national news agency (Ukrinform) on January 17th.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 27, 2023
- 01:10 PM
- 0
Ukraine links data-wiping attack on news agency to Russian hackers

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has linked a destructive malware attack targeting the country's national news agency (Ukrinform) to Sandworm Russian military hackers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 18, 2023
- 02:57 PM
- 0
Antivirus and EDR solutions tricked into acting as data wipers

A security researcher has found a way to exploit the data deletion capabilities of widely used endpoint detection and response (EDR) and antivirus (AV) software from Microsoft, SentinelOne, TrendMicro, Avast, and AVG to turn them into data wipers.
- Bill Toulas
- December 09, 2022
- 12:00 PM
- 3
Hackers use new Fantasy data wiper in coordinated supply chain attack

The Iranian Agrius APT hacking group is using a new 'Fantasy' data wiper in supply-chain attacks impacting organizations in Israel, Hong Kong, and South Africa.
- Bill Toulas
- December 07, 2022
- 12:36 PM
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New CryWiper data wiper targets Russian courts, mayor’s offices

A previously undocumented data wiper named CryWiper is masquerading as ransomware, extorting victims to pay for a decrypter, but in reality, it just destroys data beyond recovery.
- Bill Toulas
- December 02, 2022
- 12:29 PM
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Azov Ransomware is a wiper, destroying data 666 bytes at a time

The Azov Ransomware continues to be heavily distributed worldwide, now proven to be a data wiper that intentionally destroys victims' data and infects other programs.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 07, 2022
- 06:13 PM
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New Azov data wiper tries to frame researchers and BleepingComputer

A new and destructive 'Azov Ransomware' data wiper is being heavily distributed through pirated software, key generators, and adware bundles, trying to frame well-known security researchers by claiming they are behind the attack.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 30, 2022
- 08:26 PM
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Fake adult sites push data wipers disguised as ransomware

Malicious adult websites push fake ransomware which, in reality, acts as a wiper that quietly tries to delete almost all of the data on your device.
- Bill Toulas
- October 09, 2022
- 10:16 AM
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Viasat confirms satellite modems were wiped with AcidRain malware

A newly discovered data wiper malware that wipes routers and modems has been deployed in the cyberattack that targeted the KA-SAT satellite broadband service to wipe SATCOM modems on February 24, affecting thousands in Ukraine and tens of thousands more across Europe.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 31, 2022
- 01:25 PM
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