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December 29, 2016 www.scmagazine - Bradley Barth
New variant of KillDisk wiper threatens industrial
control networks with ransomware
The TeleBots gang, which recently
attacked Ukrainian banks with KillDisk malware that used Mr. Robot imagery
(pictured), may now be targeting industrial control systems with a ransomware
variant.
The KillDisk
disk-wiper program that was used in conjunction with BlackEnergy
malware to attack Ukrainian energy utilities has evolved into ransomware that may
be targeting industrial-control networks.
According to
researchers at CyberX, the new variant was developed by the TeleBots cybergang, which recently emerged
from the Sandworm threat group that is believed to
have disrupted the Ukrainian power grid offline in December 2015 and January
2016, and allegedly compromised U.S. industrial-control systems and SCADA
systems in 2014. Earlier this year, ESET researchers reported that TeleBots was
a using different version of KillDisk to conduct cybersabotage attacks against
the Ukrainian financial sector.
In a blog post on Tuesday, CyberX reported
that the ransomware variant is distributed via malicious Office attachments and
displays a pop-up message demanding 222 Bitcoins, which is currently the
equivalent of approximately $206,000. The variant's exorbitant ransom and its
link to Sandworm suggests that the group could be actively launching ransomware
attacks against industrial-control networks.
KillDisk uses a
mix of RSA 1028 public key and AES shared key algorithms to encrypt local
hard-drives and network-mapped folders that are shared across organizations,
CyberX further reported.
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