Lotus is a previously undocumented data-wiping malware used last year in targeted attacks against Venezuelan energy and utilities organizations, and it was analyzed by Kaspersky after being uploaded from a machine in Venezuela. Attackers used preparatory batch scripts to disable defenses, wipe drives with tools like diskpart/robocopy/fsutil, and then deploy the Lotus wiper to overwrite physical sectors, delete recovery mechanisms, and render systems unrecoverable. #Lotus #PDVSA