IBM X-Force IRIS researchers have spotted a new destructive data-wiping malware dubbed ZeroCleare. The malware was used in multiple targeted attacks against organizations from the energy and industrial sector in the Middle East. The researchers suspect Iran-based nation-state adversaries were involved to develop and deploy this new wiper. The attack is part of a larger trend observed by the researchers after seeing a staggering increase of 200 percent in the number of such campaigns between the second half of 2018 and the first half of 2019.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-iranian-zerocleare-data-wiper-malware-used-in-targeted-attacks/