New Lotus Wiper Targets Venezuelan Energy and Utility Firms

A newly documented data-wiping malware called Lotus was used in destructive attacks against energy and utility organizations in Venezuela. Kaspersky says the malware was designed to make infected systems unrecoverable by deleting recovery options, overwriting physical drives, and wiping files across affected volumes. The attack chain used two batch scripts before the final wiper payload. […] The post New Lotus Wiper Targets Venezuelan Energy and Utility Firms appeared first on VPN Central.