Attackers last week, a Saudi-Arabian power company would have been cracked, claim a total of 30,000 computers with malware managed to infect. They threaten the oliegigant Saturday again to fall.
As ‘evidence’ for infecting 30,000 computers placed the attackers a list of infected ip addresses on Pastebin. According to the attackers is the oil production affected by the attack and will the Saudi-Arabian power company in question, Aramco, its work for the time being not longer able to resume.
News about the attack came last week, but the scale of the attack was not yet clear. Aramco has on Facebook admitted to have been struck by a virus, but claimed that his network is fast in the air had gotten. As a precaution, cut Aramco’s access to the computers from outside the company.
The group behind the attack would be called ‘Cutting Sword of Justice’, and says the company to have attacked out of revenge for repression by Aramco in the Middle East. It would be one of the first times, and it may even be the first time that such an idealistic hackersgroepering malware used for the attack.
Possible is this the last week discovered Shamoon/Disttrack malware. It is known that one company from the energy sector because of the virus is affected; it seems plausible that the in addition to Aramco.