I am on your side when it comes to infosec naming things, for short history there has been some big attacks by Wiper type malware in the past most notably TV5,

I am on your side when it comes to infosec naming things, for short history there has been some big attacks by Wiper type malware in the past most notably TV5, South Korea (Winter Olympics 2018),SONY, ARAMCO 2017 there's also some samples currently targeting the Tokyo Olympics