Even before Russian tanks began rolling across Ukraine’s borders on February 24, the cyber war on the country had begun. In the days before the kinetic war began, a string of attacks battered Ukrainian government, defense and civil society websites and networks. Among them: massive denial of service attacks and targeted malware attacks.

In this episode of ConversingLabs, host Paul Roberts speaks with Mislav Boroš, a malware analyst at ReversingLabs about HermeticWiper and IsaacWiper, two novel pieces of malware deployed against targets in Ukraine in the lead up to- and early days of Russia's invasion.