--- title: GigaWiper Lets Threat Actors Choose Their Own... description: GigaWiper is a novel modular malware that combines backdoor and wiper capabilities into a single implant, giving attackers flexibility to choose how they... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gigawiper-lets-threat-actors-choose-their-own-destructive-attack-li2axlfm3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GigaWiper Lets Threat Actors Choose Their Own Destructive Attack | daily.dev og:description: GigaWiper is a novel modular malware that combines backdoor and wiper capabilities into a single implant, giving attackers flexibility to choose how they... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gigawiper-lets-threat-actors-choose-their-own-destructive-attack-li2axlfm3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/li2aXlFm3.png og:image:alt: GigaWiper Lets Threat Actors Choose Their Own Destructive Attack og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GigaWiper Lets Threat Actors Choose Their Own Destructive Attack **[Dark Reading](https://daily.dev/sources/dr)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GigaWiper is a novel modular malware that combines backdoor and wiper capabilities into a single implant, giving attackers flexibility to choose how they destroy a targeted system. Discovered during destructive activity in October 2025 and analyzed by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, it supports ~20 C2 commands and includes three destructive modules: a raw disk wiper, fake ransomware derived from the Crucio family that discards encryption keys, and a multipass file wiper based on FlockWiper. Unusually, it uses RabbitMQ (AMQP) and Redis for C2 communications rather than standard HTTP/DNS. Google Threat Intelligence tracks it as BlueRabbit, with Binary Defense attributing it to an Iran-based threat actor. Defenders are advised to hunt for RabbitMQ/Redis traffic on nonstandard ports, enable tamper protection, and block known C2 infrastructure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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