The data-destroying Shamoon malware and recent attacks against utilities in the Middle East should serve as a wake-up call for all types of organizations to be prepared for a whole other aspect of a breach — losing data and systems to destructive hacks. Shamoon is actually a fairly rudimentary piece of malware, but it’s likely the work of amateur coders. Attackers may instead want to roll their own data-annihilation malware since the malware is now on the radar of most antivirus products. An attack would pose a big challenge for most IT departments to deal with getting critical servers cleaned and online.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/the-data-annihilation-attack-is-back