All articles tagged with #wiper malware
Poland’s electric grid was targeted by a new wiper malware, allegedly from Russia’s Sandworm group, on the late-December anniversary of a Ukraine grid attack. The payload, dubbed DynoWiper, aimed to disrupt communications between renewables and grid operators but did not cause a blackout. Attribution is at medium confidence and researchers say there’s no evidence of disruption, with several possible reasons the attack failed.
Microsoft has confirmed a memory leak in its March Windows Server security update, causing domain controllers to crash, and has since delivered a patch to fix the issue. Atlassian leads the list of critical vulnerabilities with a SQL injection bug in Bamboo Data Center and Server. Security researchers have discovered a new, more dangerous variant of the wiper malware AcidRain, called AcidPour, linked to Russian threat actors. Additionally, Proofpoint's Data Loss Landscape report found that 85% of companies experienced data loss in the past year, with 71% attributing it to careless users, particularly privileged ones like HR and finance professionals.