Russian actors accused of attacking Ukraine with BlackEnergy malware

BlackEnergy malware has been used in attacks against news media outlets and electric companies in the Ukraine, according to researchers, and those attacked are blaming Russian agents. A trojan from the BlackEnergy family of malware was used as a backdoor to deliver new KillDisk components to the Ukrainian enterprises which could destroy data and make systems unbootable, according to a blog post by Anton Cherepanov, malware researcher for security company ESET based in Bratislava, Slovakia.