Just before Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Ukrainian government websites were disrupted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and cybersecurity firms reported seeing a new piece of destructive malware on hundreds of devices in the country.
The malware used in this attack has been named HermeticWiper and it has been described by experts as a wiper malware disguised as ransomware. This attack wave came just weeks after Ukrainian government websites were disrupted as part of a campaign that involved WhisperGate, a completely different wiper malware that was also disguised as ransomware.
