{"id":58769,"date":"2025-06-06T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/fresh-strain-of-pro-russian-wiper-flushes-ukrainian-critical-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:01:13","slug":"fresh-strain-of-pro-russian-wiper-flushes-ukrainian-critical-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/fresh-strain-of-pro-russian-wiper-flushes-ukrainian-critical-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh strain of pro-Russian wiper flushes Ukrainian critical infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new strain of wiper malware targeting Ukrainian infrastructure is being linked to pro-Russian hackers, in the latest sign of Moscow&#8217;s evolving cyber tactics.<\/p>\n<p>An unspecified critical infrastructure entity in Ukraine was targeted by a never-before-seen wiper strain that researchers at Cisco Talos are calling PathWiper.<\/p>\n<p>Talos said it attributed the attack to a Russia-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group, noting tactical similarities with previous pro-Russian operations.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>It also said there were commonalities between PathWiper and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/03\/01\/ukraine_wiper_apple_visa_mastercard\/\">HermeticWiper<\/a>, one of the destructive malware strains used at the start of Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Those attacks using HermeticWiper were strongly attributed to Sandworm, a division within Russian intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Both PathWiper and HermeticWiper attempt to corrupt the master boot record, and NTFS-related artifacts as well, but their corruption mechanisms differ significantly, Talos <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/pathwiper-targets-ukraine\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;PathWiper programmatically identifies all connected, including dismounted, drives and volumes on the system, identifies volume labels for verification, and documents valid records.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This differs from HermeticWiper&#8217;s simple process of enumerating physical drives from 0 to 100 and attempting to corrupt them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Talos said that in discovering PathWiper, the attacker already had control of the critical infrastructure organization&#8217;s endpoint administration system, which suggests a certain degree of sophistication.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33aEM_-8viv0GczzovskRTJgAAAQ0&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The researchers didn&#8217;t detail the attack in much further depth than that, but with that level of access, PathWiper could have been deployed widely across the organization&#8217;s network, causing extensive destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The malware would first enumerate the connected storage media on the endpoint, including the names of physical drives, volume names and paths, and network drive paths (shared and unshared).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once all the storage media information has been collected, PathWiper creates one thread per drive and volume for every path recorded and overwrites artifacts with randomly generated bytes,&#8221; said Talos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wiper reads multiple file systems attributes, such as the following from New Technology File System (NTFS). PathWiper then overwrites the contents\/data related to these artifacts directly on disk with random data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before overwriting the contents of the artifacts, the wiper also attempts to dismount volumes using the &#8216;FSCTL_DISMOUNT_VOLUME IOCTL&#8217; to the MountPointManager device object. PathWiper also destroys files on disk by overwriting them with randomized bytes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, seeing a wiper attack in the wild was a relatively rare occurrence \u2013 maybe one major incident in a bad year \u2013 but their use surged after the war broke out.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers noted <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/04\/29\/wiper_attacks_jump_500_percent\/\">six new strains on the loose<\/a> in the first quarter of 2022, with attacks causing wide-scale disruption beyond their intended targets, including German wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks were mainly targeting Ukrainian organizations \u2013 a key theme of Russia&#8217;s multi-modal war, which saw kinetic attacks on the ground supported by parallel cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>However, telecoms biz Viasat was among the more notable victims of pro-Russian wiper attacks. Weeks after its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/04\/01\/sentinelone_wiper_viasat\/\">modems were wiped<\/a>, causing internet access to go down \u2013 an incident that was timed with the first days of Russia&#8217;s invasion \u2013 it confirmed the AcidRain wiper malware was used in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Wiper use was just one of the many ways in which Russia embraced technology to support its operations on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>DDoS attacks on Ukrainian systems began ten days before the invasion. Wipers were used the day before, and later that day <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/05\/13\/cyberspace_is_first_theatre_of_war\/\">Russia&#8217;s psyops began<\/a>. From texting Ukrainian soldiers directly with demands to surrender, to issuing fake alerts about ATMs failing to operate normally, and using deepfake tech to depict president Volodymyr Zelensky surrendering, Russia&#8217;s invasion wrote the new blueprint for beginning wartime in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>More than three years later, Putin has still failed to achieve his goal of reintegrating Ukraine into Russian influence, although Russia now controls a fifth of the country&#8217;s territory.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Zelensky&#8217;s efforts, and much to the Kremlin&#8217;s satisfaction, Ukraine has also failed to become a member of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/10\/01\/evil_corp_russia_relationship\/\">NATO<\/a> \u2013 another step Putin sought to prevent with the war. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/06\/06\/pro_russia_wiper_ukraine\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Destructive malware has been a hallmark of Putin&#8217;s multi-modal war A new strain of wiper malware targeting Ukrainian infrastructure is being linked to pro-Russian hackers, in the latest sign of Moscow&#8217;s evolving cyber tactics.\u2026 READ MORE HERE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-register"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fresh strain of pro-Russian wiper flushes Ukrainian critical 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