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TL;DR: Malicious programs designed to wipe hard disk drives clean are dangerous enough, but they become a systemic risk when that same capability gets built into a remote-controlled backdoor. Microsoft has now documented one such tool, a multi-faceted platform equipped with an unusually wide range of destruction capabilities.
Security analysts at Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently uncovered GigaWiper, a destructive backdoor assembled by combining several different malware families into one package.
GigaWiper is technically a backdoor, in that it's designed to spy on a victim's machine and receive commands remotely. But it's also an incredibly dangerous "wiper," since it packs multiple payloads capable of erasing both files and partition or volume logic from local storage drives.
