Shamoon Malware Linked To Saudi Aramco Attack

angry tapir writes "A timer found in the Shamoon cyber-sabotage malware discovered last week matches the exact time and date when a hacktivist group claims to have disabled thousands of computers from the network of Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. 'We penetrated a system of Aramco company by using the hacked systems in several countries and then sent a malicious virus to destroy thirty thousand computers networked in this company,' a group called the 'Cutting Sword of Justice' said in a Pastebin post on Aug. 15. 'The destruction operations began on Wednesday, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:08 AM (Local time in Saudi Arabia) and will be completed within a few hours.' That same day, Saudi Aramco confirmed that some sectors of its computer network were affected by a computer virus that infected workstations used by its employees."

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Aramco's computer network?

[turbidostato]

...or Aramco's *windows* computer network?

Re:saudi funded garbage

[__aaltlg1547]

Great, you don't like them. So lets infect their computers with destructive viruses that can also damage the computers of other people we have no problem with. This is not like spraying Aramco Sux on a wall. It affects innocent third parties.

Terrorism or counter-terrorism

[KublaKhan1797]

Is this terrorism or counter-terrorism? So difficult to tell these days when both sides act the same.