{"id":8819,"date":"2026-07-09T19:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/new-gigawiper-windows-backdoor-bundles-disk-wiping-fake-ransomware-and-spyware\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T19:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T19:11:54","slug":"new-gigawiper-windows-backdoor-bundles-disk-wiping-fake-ransomware-and-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/new-gigawiper-windows-backdoor-bundles-disk-wiping-fake-ransomware-and-spyware\/","title":{"rendered":"New GigaWiper Windows Backdoor Bundles Disk Wiping, Fake Ransomware, and Spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can choose from.<\/p>\n<p>Each is a different way to break a machine: wipe the whole disk, overwrite the Windows drive, or run fake &#8220;ransomware&#8221; that scrambles files with a key it never saves\u00a0Microsoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can choose from.<\/p>\n<p>Each is a different way to break a machine: wipe the whole disk, overwrite the Windows drive, or run fake &#8220;ransomware&#8221; that scrambles files with a key it never saves\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bMicrosoft has taken apart a destructive Windows backdoor it calls GigaWiper. What stands out is how it is built: not one tool but three older destructive programs bolted into one, offered as commands the operator can choose from. Each is a different way to break a machine: wipe the whole disk, overwrite the Windows drive,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/new-gigawiper-windows-backdoor-bundles-disk-wiping-fake-ransomware-and-spyware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New GigaWiper Windows Backdoor Bundles Disk Wiping, Fake Ransomware, and Spyware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}