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PC Gamer
Andy Edser

Meet GigaWiper, a tricksy new malware that can wipe your PC's storage drives squeaky clean and spy on your desktop all at once

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I run a single SSD gaming PC, which I'm aware is giving me a wonderful case of 'single-point-of-failure-itus.' Which is why my ears (eyes?) perked up when I read about GigaWiper, a wonderfully-named malware that can potentially do terrible things to your storage drives.

Microsoft has published an analysis into GigaWiper's capabilities, and it looks to be a multi-faceted, tricksy piece of malware with a pretty unique USP (via MalwareBytes). It appears to be the result of several malware families stitched together, and is capable of wiping your drives at the physical disk level, "overwriting raw disk content and removing partition metadata."

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