RiskIQ confirms that it's seeing Ghostwriter activity against Ukrainian troops. Kaspersky assesses the ransomware as misdirection for the wiper campaign, which would be consistent with Russian practice at the outset of the war against Ukraine. CrowdStrike has also detected the Go-based ransomware, which it's calling "Party Ticket," but which it confirms is the same malware as HermeticRansom. ESET has also found HermeticRansom in the wild, which adds a capability for extortion to the campaign. The company says it's detected a worm, HermeticWizard, that's spreading HermeticWiper, which, as its name suggests, is data-erasing malware. SecurityWeek has an update on ESET's research into Russian cyberattacks against Ukrainian targets. May go all out on economic and cyber retaliation,” “The danger: Putin has very little to lose now. Even China is getting scared of secondary sanctions," Silverado Policy Accelerator chairman and CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch tweeted. "Putin/Russia getting completely isolated economically & diplomatically. President Putin's calculus may have led him to believe that restraint will gain him little. As international sanctions tighten against Moscow, and in particular as its banking sector is incrementally blocked from access to the SWIFT system, VentureBeat reports that organizations around the world are bracing for Russian retaliation in cyberspace.
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