Wiper

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What Wikipedia says

In computer security, a wiper is a class of malware intended to erase (wipe, hence the name) the hard drive or other static memory of the computer it infects, maliciously deleting data and programs.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Wiper (malware)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia