The facts provided in the Viasat Incident Report yesterday are accurate.

The entire statement from the company is as follows – In a statement shared with The Hacker News, Viasat confirmed that data destroying malware was indeed deployed on modems using 'legitimate management' commands but refrained from sharing further details citing an ongoing investigation. That having said, it's still unclear how the threat actors gained access to the VPN. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed a successor to VPNFilter, calling the replacement framework Cyclops Blink. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the U.S. This makes AcidRain the seventh wiper strain to be uncovered since the start of the year in connection with the Russo-Ukrainian war after WhisperGate, WhisperKill, HermeticWiper, IsaacWiper, CaddyWiper, and DoubleZero.įurther analysis of the wiper sample has also uncovered an 'interesting' code overlap with a third stage plugin ('dstr') used in attacks involving a malware family called VPNFilter, which has been attributed to the Russian Sandworm (aka Voodoo Bear) group.

Once the wiping process is complete, the device is rebooted to render it inoperable.

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