The Saudi Aramco Total Refining and Petrochemical Company (SATORP), a joint venture with France’s Total Oil Co., trying to maintain its infrastructure after a very hard cyber war attacks.
which leads to a huge disaster for the main servers, SATORP now moving all Employee Mail Access to be hosted by Mobily until investigators began searching for evidence of who was behind the attack.
The company took its website offline after the attack and Remote access is restricted “as a precaution” the group said.
with reference to the old attack on Saudi Aramco in August 2012,
Saudi Arabia has revealed that a cyber attack against its giant oil industry earlier this year aimed to stop crude oil and gas supplies, highlighting the devastating impact the virus could have had on global markets.
Saudi Aramco, the state-owned company and the world’s largest oil producer, initially said the attack had only affected desktop computers, but now the company has disclosed the real aim was to stop hydrocarbon production.
“The main target in this attack was to stop the flow of oil and gas to local and international markets,” Abdullah al-Saadan, Aramco’s vice-president for corporate planning, told local media. He added that the hackers tried for a full month to bring down the system before succeeding in penetrating through certain weak points.
The same cyber virus that targeted Saudi Aramco, known as Shamoon, was also used to attack systems at Qatar’s RasGas , one of the largest producers of liquefied natural gas, industry executives and internet security experts said.
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2013