World’s largest oil producer: 30K workstations fell victim to cyber attack

It’s nearly a plot line from the movies: World’s largest oil producer gets hit by a cyber-attack that threatens to wipe away all data from its internal computers. But largely, this is the situation Saudi Aramco described today.

The Saudi Arabia-based, industry leader released a statement confirming  roughly 30,000 workstations were affected via cyber attack in mid-August. Details beyond that were scarce—Saudi Aramco said the virus “originated from external sources” and that their investigation into it was ongoing. There was no mention of whether this was related to this month’s Shamoon attacks.

» via ars technica

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