[gigawiper]

July 11, 2026

• GigaWiper, flagged by Microsoft, is a modular Golang Windows backdoor bundling a standalone wiper, ransomware encryption, multi-pass wiping, and persistence, with C2 over RabbitMQ and Redis — an evolution of several prior malware families. The Register, SecurityWeek · Threat Activity & Malware

in Progress Orders ShareFile Storage Controllers Offline Over Active Zero-Day Threat

July 10, 2026

• GigaWiper, dissected by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, is a destructive backdoor assembled from three older destructive families bolted into one operator-selectable platform: full-disk wipe, Windows-drive overwrite, and fake "ransomware" that scrambles files with a key it never saves. The write-up includes detection guidance for the composite behaviors. Microsoft · The Hacker News · Malware & Endpoint Evasion

in Signed Drivers and Kernel Rootkits Push the Malware Beat Down to Ring 0