Disk Wipe
Technique · ATTACK:enterprise:T1561
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{
"id": "ATTACK:enterprise:T1561",
"title": "Disk Wipe",
"type": "Technique",
"source_url": "https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1561",
"snapshot": "enterprise-attack-20.0.json",
"status": "active",
"rights": "Source metadata only; source notices retained; no operational prose or payloads",
"review_status": "machine-extracted; source-specific checks passed, editorial review pending",
"stix_id": "attack-pattern--1988cc35-ced8-4dad-b2d1-7628488fa967",
"external_id": "T1561",
"domain": "enterprise",
"created": "2020-02-20T22:02:20.372Z",
"modified": "2025-10-24T17:48:27.697Z",
"version": "1.2",
"aliases": [
],
"tactics": [
"impact"
],
"source_references": [
{
"source_name": "erase_cmd_cisco",
"url": "https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/fundamentals/command/cf_command_ref/D_through_E.html#wp3557227463"
},
{
"source_name": "Novetta Blockbuster Destructive Malware",
"url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200515/https:/operationblockbuster.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Operation-Blockbuster-Destructive-Malware-Report.pdf"
},
{
"source_name": "Microsoft Sysmon v6 May 2017",
"url": "https://docs.microsoft.com/sysinternals/downloads/sysmon"
}
]
}Explicit source assertions (3)
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ATTACK:enterprise:T1561.002 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1561
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--1af12953-edeb-4678-91e4-7c70000ee6c3
ATTACK:enterprise:T1561.001 → subtechnique-of → ATTACK:enterprise:T1561
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--a6e77d6e-a76d-446c-a8ac-03b48892b7cb
ATTACK:enterprise:M1053 → mitigates → ATTACK:enterprise:T1561
MITRE ATT&CK: Source assertion; no new actor identity, alias equivalence, CVE exploitation or causal inference. Procedure prose omitted.
Assertion source · Locator: relationship--dd8baf22-4e06-4b5e-81c6-d100048102e8
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