Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes

The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google's Mandiant, which described the hack as a "multi-event cyber attack" leveraging a novel technique for impacting...

Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones

Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without first having the data on them erased, a practice that can lead to crime victims being re-victimized, a new study found. In response, the largest online marketplace for...

Researchers Demonstrate How EDR and Antivirus Can Be Weaponized Against Users

High-severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in different endpoint detection and response EDR and antivirus AV products that could be exploited to turn them into data wipers. "This wiper runs with the permissions of an unprivileged user yet has the ability to wipe almost any file on...

Iranian Hackers Strike Diamond Industry with Data-Wiping Malware in Supply-Chain Attack

An Iranian advanced persistent threat APT actor known as Agrius has been attributed as behind a set of data wiper attacks aimed at diamond industries in South Africa, Israel, and Hong Kong. The wiper, referred to as Fantasy by ESET, is believed to have been delivered via a supply-chain attack...

New Azov Ransomware can wipe 666 bytes data at a stretch

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The new Azov Ransomware can wipe 666 bytes of data at a time. The Azov wiper destroys victims data on purpose and infects other applications by dropping a fake pirated software...

PSAsyncShell - PowerShell Asynchronous TCP Reverse Shell

PSAsyncShell is an Asynchronous TCP Reverse Shell written in pure PowerShell. Unlike other reverse shells, all the communication and execution flow is done asynchronously, allowing to bypass some firewalls and some countermeasures against this kind of remote connections. Additionally, this tool...

Ukraine Secret Service Arrests Hacker Helping Russian Invaders

The Security Service of Ukraine SBU said it has detained a "hacker" who offered technical assistance to the invading Russian troops by providing mobile communication services inside the Ukrainian territory. The anonymous suspect is said to have broadcasted text messages to Ukrainian officials,...

Another Destructive Wiper Targets Organizations in Ukraine

Researchers have discovered yet another destructive data-wiping malware targeting organizations in Ukraine, the third to be found in as many weeks attacking systems in the country that’s currently defending itself against a Russian physical invasion. A team from cybersecurity firm ESET on Monday...

Destructive data wipers and worms targeting Ukrainian organizations

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have jointly released an advisory and warned of an ongoing cyber attack using destructive malware targeting organizations in Ukrai...

New iLOBleed Rootkit Targeting HP Enterprise Servers with Data Wiping Attacks

A previously unknown rootkit has been found setting its sights on Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's Integrated Lights-Out iLO server management technology to carry out in-the-wild attacks that tamper with the firmware modules and completely wipe data off the infected systems. The discovery, which is t...

MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet

Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affect...

CVE-2020-36333

ThemeGrill Demo Importer prior to 1.6.2 is vulnerable via a reset_wizard_actions hook that allows unauthenticated users to wipe the entire WordPress database. The issue affects versions from 1.3.4 upward and 1.6.1 and below, enabling a full database reset to default state and automatic administra...

CVE-2020-36333

themegrill-demo-importer before 1.6.2 does not require authentication for wiping the database, because of a resetwizardactions hook...

CVE-2020-36334

themegrill-demo-importer before 1.6.3 allows CSRF, as demonstrated by wiping the database...

Updated mbedtls packages fix security vulnerabilities

This update provides security bug fixes and minor enhancements. Limit the size of calculations performed by mbedtlsmpiexpmod to MBEDTLSMPIMAXSIZE to prevent a potential denial of service when generating Diffie-Hellman key pairs. A failure of the random generator was ignored in mbedtlsmpifillrando...

HEH P2P Botnet Sports Dangerous Wiper Function

A freshly discovered botnet dubbed HEH by researchers is casting a wide net, looking to infect any and all devices that use Telnet on ports 23/2323. It’s particularly destructive: It contains code that wipes all data from infected systems. Perhaps ironically, its operators also have a penchant fo...

CVE-2020-11684

AT91bootstrap before 3.9.2 does not properly wipe encryption and authentication keys from memory before passing control to a less privileged software component. This can be exploited to disclose these keys and subsequently encrypt and sign the next boot stage such as the bootloader...

Samsung Quietly Fixes Critical Galaxy Flaws Allowing Spying, Data Wiping

Researchers have disclosed a slew of critical-severity, patched flaws in flagship Samsung smartphones – including the Galaxy S7, S8 and S9 models. The vulnerabilities specifically stem from Samsung’s “Find My Mobile” service, a feature built into the smartphones allowing users to locate their...

WordPress Database Reset Plugin <= 3.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The WordPress plugin SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113630";...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: GermanWiper Ransomware

GermanWiper Ransomware was found distributed via spam email campaign in Germany. It’s a data-wiping malware and the ransom note was written in German language. The malware pretends to be ransomware but is actually a wiper that destroys the data instead of encrypting it. Figure 1: Screenshot of th...