Wiper (malware)

A piece of malware referred to as "Wiper" was allegedly used in attacks against Iranian oil companies.

In 2012, the International Telecommunication Union supplied Kaspersky Lab with hard drives allegedly damaged by Wiper for analysis.

[4] In 2017, computers in several countries—most prominently Ukraine, were infected by NotPetya, which is a variant of the Petya ransomware that was a wiper in functional sense.

Named CaddyWiper, HermeticWiper, IsaacWiper, and FoxBlade by researchers, the programs showed little relation to each other, prompting speculation that they were created by different state-sponsored actors in Russia especially for this occasion.

[12] Moreover regular backups (as long as stored on an external device) provide the ability to restore lost data.