HOMETHREATSSwiftSlicer
MALWARE FAMILY

SwiftSlicer

Internal ID: win.swiftslicer
1
aliases
Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

According to ESET, this is a wiper written in Go, that was deployed against an Ukrainian organization on January 25th 2023 through Group Policy, which suggests that the attackers had taken control of the victim’s Active Directory environment.

Threat Analysis

SwiftSlicer is a malware family tracked by threat intelligence researchers and catalogued in the Malpedia dataset. It represents a distinct malicious software lineage with identifiable code characteristics, behaviors, and victimology.

External References

→https://twitter.com/ESETresearch/status/1618960022150729728
→https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/security-insider/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/A-year-of-Russian-hybrid-warfare-in-Ukraine_MS-Threat-Intelligence-1.pdf
→https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/01/27/swiftslicer-new-destructive-wiper-malware-ukraine/

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family
Aliases1

Also Known As

win.swiftslicer

Research Links

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Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.
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