The attackers wanted to disable several infrastructure facilities.
Government team responds to computer emergencies Ukraine's CERT-UA announced a cyber attack by the Sandworm group on Ukraine's energy facilities using malicious programs Industroyer2 and CaddyWiper. This was reported by the State Special Service.
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The attackers wanted to disable several infrastructure elements of the attack. Among them:
- electrical substations using the malware Industroyer2. Moreover, each executable file contained a statically specified set of unique parameters for the respective substations. using malicious destructive action CaddyWiper.
- server hardware running the Linux operating system – using malicious destructive scripts.
- active network hardware.
The victim organization suffered two waves of attacks, the first of which took place no later than February 2022. On Friday, April 8, the attackers planned to shut down electrical substations and disable the company's infrastructure. But the attackers' intentions were thwarted.
Earlier, a hacker group linked to the Anonymous group said it had managed to gain access to the Kremlin's video surveillance system .
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