Iran’s CERT issued an alert about the relatively rudimentary malware, a.k.a. Batchwiper or GrooveMonitor. It’s the latest in a series of data-destroying malware attacks targeting specific organizations in the Middle East. The malware is a “very simple” knockoff of other wiping malware with no relation to those previously discovered malware attacks. “It’s not the kind of thing you’d expect a nation-state [to create],” says senior security adviser for Sophos.”]

