What was that Wiper thing?

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What was that Wiper thing?
Botnet	Wiper
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2012 / 29 aug2012
Editor/Conference	Kaspersky lab
Link	http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193808/What was that Wiper thing (Archive copy)
Author	GReAT
Type

Abstract

“ It is our firm opinion that Wiper was a separate strain of malware that was not Flame. Although Flame was a highly flexible attack platform, we did not see any evidence of very destructive behavior. Given the complexity of Flame, one would expect it to be used for long-term surveillance of targets instead of direct sabotage attacks on computer systems. Of course, it is possible that one of the last stages of the surveillance was the delivery of a Wiper-related payload, but so far we haven’t seen this anywhere.

So, months later, we are left wondering: Just what was Wiper?

Bibtex

 @misc{GReAT2012BFR1137,
   editor = {Kaspersky lab},
   author = {GReAT},
   title = {What was that Wiper thing?},
   date = {29},
   month = Aug,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193808/What_was_that_Wiper_thing}},
 }