HermeticWiper Malware

Released: Mar 02, 2022


Medium Severity


Destructive malware targeting organizations in Ukraine

Malware known as Hermetic (or, FoxBlade) was found by cybersecurity researchers being used against organizations in Ukraine. Learn More »

Background

Malware actors have deployed destructive malware targetting organizations in Ukraine during the advent of the unprovoked Russian attack against Ukraine. The malware when executed on a Windows PC can wipe the partitions ending up destroying all data and the operating system.

Latest Development

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FortiGuard has Anti-VIrus detection coverage on the malware as W32/KillDisk.NCV!tr. The ANN and behavioural detects the malware as trojan downloader and high risk, respectively.


February 26, CISA announced a destructive malware targetting Ukraine known as HermeticWiper..

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