Security News > 2023 > January > Ukraine Hit with New Golang-based 'SwiftSlicer' Wiper Malware in Latest Cyber Attack
Ukraine has come under a fresh cyber onslaught from Russia that involved the deployment of a previously undocumented Golang-based data wiper dubbed SwiftSlicer.
ESET attributed the attack to Sandworm, a nation-state group linked to Military Unit 74455 of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
In 2022 alone, coinciding with Russia's military invasion of Ukraine, Sandworm has unleashed WhisperGate, HermeticWiper, IsaacWiper, CaddyWiper, Industroyer2, Prestige, and RansomBoggs against critical infrastructure in Ukraine.
The discovery of SwiftSlicer points to the consistent use of wiper malware variants by the Russian adversarial collective in attacks designed to wreak havoc in Ukraine.
The development also comes as the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine linked Sandworm to a recent largely unsuccessful cyberattack on the national news agency Ukrinform.
Sandworm is not the only group that has its eyes on Ukraine.
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