{"id":12308,"date":"2026-04-22T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:03:48","slug":"new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lotus data wiper used against Venezuelan energy, utility firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    New Lotus data wiper used against Venezuelan energy, utility firms<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A previously undocumented data-wiping malware dubbed Lotus was used last year in targeted attacks against energy and utilities organizations in Venezuela. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-lotus-data-wiper-used-against-venezuelan-energy-utility-firms\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Lotus data wiper used against Venezuelan energy, utility firms A previously undocumented data-wiping malware dubbed Lotus was used last year in targeted attacks against energy and utilities organizations in Venezuela. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-12308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}