Shamoon Cyberattacks Affect Middle East Energy Industry
Return To ArticleWarnings have gone out over a fresh assault on energy companies operating in the Middle East as at least two companies operating in the region were hacked with highly destructive malware designed to wipe systems and render them inoperable.
One company, Italy’s Saipem, admitted Wednesday its servers were targeted across the Middle East, Aberdeen and Italy with a variant of a wiper malware known as Shamoon. It was previously used in a hack that knocked 30,000 computers offline at oil giant Saudi Aramco and was previously attributed to Iran. But it’s unclear who is behind the latest attacks, according to cybersecurity experts from Symantec and Chronicle, an Alphabet-owned company.
