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Saudi Aramco Reveals Cyber Attack Hit 30,000 Workstations

Posted by timothy on from the running-windows-for-workstations-I-guess dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. The group, calling itself the 'Cutting Sword of Justice,' claimed to have hacked Aramco systems in several countries before sending a virus across 30,000 computers, achieving a 75 percent infection rate of all the company's systems. It refuted suggestions that a nation state was behind the attack."

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  1. android? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    am I missing something, why is this story tagged Android?

    1. Re:android? by Rei · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, but they'd need to wait until the story falls asleep before they can read it...

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      Powell: "So, what are we doing?" Cheney: "Oh, crime." Powell: "Crime? Good, OK... crime..."
  2. In all seriousness by zero.kalvin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would rather Saudis get hacked than Iranians. For someone who grew up in the Middle east, Saudi Arabia is much much dangerous than Iran ( regardless of political inclinations ).