Lotus Wiper: A Destructive New Threat Strikes Venezuela’s Energy Sector

**Executive Summary:** Kaspersky researchers identified "Lotus Wiper", a destructive file-wiper used in a coordinated campaign against Venezuela's energy and utilities sector that uses batch scripts to prepare environments and a payload that removes recovery mechanisms, overwrites physical drives, and irretrievably deletes files, with artifacts indicating months of preparation and a targeted, high-impact sabotage objective.