https://news.hitb.org/index.php/ en https://news.hitb.org/index.php/content/aramco-says-cyberattack-was-aimed-production <article data-history-node-id="46177" role="article" class="node article teaser clearfix UTF-8"> <header> <h2 class="title text-center"><a href="/index.php/content/aramco-says-cyberattack-was-aimed-production" rel="bookmark"><span>Aramco Says Cyberattack Was Aimed at Production</span> </a></h2> <div class="meta submit clearfix"> <div class="date text-right"> <span class="lowercase">posted on</span>December 10, 2012 </div> <div class="author"> <span class="lowercase">by</span> <span><span>l33tdawg</span></span> </div> </div> </header> <div class="image-default"> <div> <a href="/index.php/content/aramco-says-cyberattack-was-aimed-production" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/1000px-Saudi_Aramco.svg_.png?itok=qGJQHrM9" width="220" height="80" alt="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco" title="Credit: Wikipedia" /> </a> </div> <div class="image-credit"> <strong>Credit:</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco</a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div><p>Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, Aramco, said on Sunday that a cyberattack against it in August that damaged some 30,000 computers was aimed at stopping oil and gas production in Saudi Arabia, the biggest exporter in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.</p> <p>The attack on Saudi Aramco — which supplies a tenth of the world’s oil — failed to disrupt production, but was one of the most destructive hacker strikes against a single business.</p></div> </div> <div class="meta link clearfix"> <div class="comment"> <span class="lowercase">no</span>comment </div> <div class="share text-center show-for-medium"> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://news.hitb.org/index.php/content/aramco-says-cyberattack-was-aimed-production" data-a2a-title="Aramco Says Cyberattack Was Aimed at Production"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"><span class="fa fa-facebook"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin"><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_email"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a></span> </div> <div class="read-more"><a href="/index.php/content/aramco-says-cyberattack-was-aimed-production"><span class="lowercase">&#8594;</span>READ MORE</a></div> </div> </article> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:20:32 +0000 l33tdawg 46177 at https://news.hitb.org