From: Exploration World
If one searches Google for significant events that occurred on Aug. 15, 2012, they’d walk away from the task thinking nothing of any particular importance happened—far from a discussion about the lasting effect that that day had on cybersecurity within the energy sector.
That’s the day that a malicious line of code, which has since been dubbed Shamoon, infiltrated the internal network of Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil and gas company. Whilst replicating itself on each host device, the virus spread throughout the network, indiscriminately deleting huge chunks of data from hard drives and effectively destroying millions of dollars’ worth of hardware.
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