Saudi Aramco

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2012
Cyber espionage on energy sector,Chinese hackers are not the only

Since last month a new campaign of cyber attacks have hit the Energy sector, all is started with the incidents to Saudi Aramco and RasGas companies, in both cases a malware infected internal networks without impacting on the production systems. Due the nature of the targets, the mode of attack and the specific malware behavior […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2012
Dangerous waves of malware are transforming cyberspace in a jungle

The cyberspace is becoming a jungle of malware, a place where the danger is just around the corner. Governments, cyber criminals, hacktivist and terrorist are focusing their activities in the new domain due this reason we are assisting to the born of new agents and very sophisticated attack tools. In a parallel manner is lowering […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2012
RasGas, new cyber attack against an energy company

A new strange attack has hit Qatar’s natural gas pumper RasGas, like happened to Saudi Aramco company a virus has infected machines of its network. RasGas is a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and ExxonMobil operating in Qatar that has an annual export quote of 36.3 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas. The attack has […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2012
Iran suspected for the attack on the Saudi Aramco

Last week it was announced by Saudi Arabia’s oil company, Saudi Aramco that its systems and its internal network were victims of a cyber attack. Recently the company has given more info on the incident declaring that the systems are back up after the attack made by a virus that infected 30,000 work stations. All […]