New AcidPour Wiper Targeting Linux Devices Spotted in Ukraine

READ ARTICLE By: Kevin Poireault Reporter, Infosecurity Magazine A new variant of the wiper malware AcidRain, known as AcidPour, has been discovered by SentinelOne’s threat intelligence team, SentinelLabs. AcidRain is destructive wiper malware attributed to Russian military intelligence. In May 2022, AcidRain was used in a broad-scale cyber-attack against Viasat’s KA-SAT satellites in Ukraine. The malware rendered…

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Prior to Cyber Attack, Russian Attackers Spent Months Inside the Ukraine Telecoms Giant

https://www.cysecurity.news/2024/01/prior-to-cyber-attack-russian-attackers.html Kyivstar experienced a large-scale malfunction in December 2023, resulting in the outage of mobile communications and the internet for about 24 million users for several days.  How? Russian hackers broke into the Ukrainian telecommunications giant’s system in May 2023. Ilya Vityuk, the chief of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) cyber security department, told…

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