Saudi Aramco Gets Cyber Attacked

         On August 15th an unknown hacking group launched a cyber attack on Saudi Aramco, the largest oil company in the world. The attack was in malware form and was intended to spy on the computers within the organization and alter some critical files. The attack ended up affected over 30,000 workstation and erased their hard drives, forcing them to go offline to prevent any further spreed of the virus. In addition some servers and services went offline to prevent and information leakage. It also effected the main website by making it go offline right away after the attack. Recently, Aramco official announced that after around 2 weeks of workstations cleansing  Saudi Aramco is finally fully cleansed from the malware. After this attack the company increased their firewall security and their internal policies regrading connecting external devices to the network to avoid any further attack.

Diaa Rafiq 




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