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Circle IV · Destroyers (wipers)

The Demon Olympic Destroyer, Saboteur of Ceremonies

Legend

On 9 February 2018, during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Games, it knocked out part of the organisers' IT systems. It contained false clues built on purpose to shift the blame to other countries. The US Justice Department later indicted Russian military intelligence officers.

Exorcism

Cast it out by protecting domain credentials, which it stole and reused to spread. Offline backups and an emergency plan for public events keep the show going.

Technical record

Circle
Circle IV · Destroyers (wipers) · Circle V · State espionage
First seen
2018
Status
Dormant

A wiper that disrupted IT systems during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics on 9 February 2018. It contained deliberate false flags pointing to other countries' hackers. The US DOJ indicted Russian GRU (Sandworm) officers for the attack in 2020.

Sources: attack.mitre.org · attack.mitre.org · justice.gov · MITRE ATT&CK reference S0365

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