SonicVote, also known as HermeticRansom, is destructive malware used in attacks against organizations in or tied to Ukraine during Russia’s 2022 invasion. Microsoft described FoxBlade and SonicVote as destructive malware discovered on 23 February 2022 that impacted hundreds of systems across government, IT, financial, and energy organizations predominantly located in or connected to Ukraine. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security included SonicVote/HermeticRansom among eight malware families used by Russia-linked threat actors for destructive activity against Ukraine. The malware is associated in reporting with the Hermetic attack cluster alongside HermeticWiper/FoxBlade. Microsoft stated FoxBlade is also known as HermeticWiper/HermeticWizard and SonicVote as HermeticRansom; however, the provided content does not give further high-confidence technical details on SonicVote’s internal behavior, infection vector, or specific indicators of compromise beyond its naming and campaign context.
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Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, likely Russian threat actors conducted several disruptive and destructive computer network attacks against Ukrainian targets... To date, there are eight tracked malware families that Russia-linked cyber threat actors have used for destructive activity against Ukraine: WhisperGate/Whisperkill, FoxBlade (HermeticWiper), SonicVote (HermeticRansom), CaddyWiper, DesertBlade, Industroyer2, Lasainraw (IsaacWiper) and FiberLake (DoubleZero).
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Ransomware-like destructive capability associated with the Hermetic wiper activity cluster.
SonicVote [[URL_b3187638_136]] 2022 年 4 月 (v 5.100)
Destructive malware tracked as HermeticRansom and used in Russia-linked operations against Ukraine.
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