{"id":982,"date":"2026-04-21T08:39:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=982"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:49:15","slug":"new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lotus data wiper used against Venezuelan energy, utility firms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A previously undocumented data-wiping malware dubbed Lotus was used last year in targeted attacks against energy and utilities organizations in Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The malware was uploaded to a publicly available platform in mid-December from a machine in Venezuela and has been analyzed by researchers at Kaspersky.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms\/\">New Lotus data wiper used against Venezuelan energy, utility firms<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: New Lotus data wiper used against Venezuelan energy, utility firms<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previously undocumented data-wiping malware dubbed Lotus was used last year in targeted attacks against energy and utilities organizations in Venezuela. The malware was uploaded to a publicly available platform in mid-December from a machine in Venezuela and has been analyzed by researchers at Kaspersky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-72"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}