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Second Middle East energy company hit by malware

31 August 2012
Qatari liquified natural gas company RasGas has suffered a malware attack reminiscent of the attack against the Saudi Aramco oil company last week. It is not known if either the attackers or the malware used are the same.
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Comparison with last week’s attack against Aramco is inevitable. In that attack Aramco suffered damage to 30,000 PCs, although Aramco claims the PCs have now been recovered. The Shamoon virus is widely believed to be the culprit, although the attackers and their motives are not clear. Shamoon has data stealing capabilities but then attempts to clear its tracks by wiping the computer’s hard drive and making it unusable.

Shamoon has been compared to the Wiper cyberweapon, but Kaspersky has dismissed it as a poor copy. Nevertheless, cyber conflict analyst Jeffrey Carr believes that Shamoon may be a politically motivated cyberweapon, and that Iran might be behind it.
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