McFee revealed that the cyber attacks on Saudi Arabia over the last few months have been continuing. McAfee revealed the details about this disruptive campaign which is unofficially directed to Iran.
Raj Samani, chief Scientist said that the previous cyber attacks on Saudi Arabia's state run oil company happened in 2012 were very similar to cyber attacks this time though this time its more massively destructive , speaking ahead of the blog post's publication.
Samani said "This campaign was a lot bigger" he added "Way larger in terms of the amount of work that needed to be done"
In one of the claims, the 2012 cyber attacks against Saudi Aramco and Quatari natural gas company RasGas were one of the most dangerous cyber attacks ever publicly revealed. It was a huge data wiping attacks that wrecked tens of thousands of computers.
McAfee officials said that the malicious code for attacks used this time were heavily copied from the previous 2012 attack, part of the code seems to have been copied from a previously known hacking group, Rocket Kitten. US cyber security has indicated Iran for the attacks with greater or lesser certainty.
While McAfee has refused to link any particular actors to the incident.
Saudi officials gave little information about the incident saying more than dozen government agencies and companies were effected and a governor adviser didn't responded when asked about the attacks.
The Iranian Embassy in Paris have also not responded to the messages .
Raj Samani, chief Scientist said that the previous cyber attacks on Saudi Arabia's state run oil company happened in 2012 were very similar to cyber attacks this time though this time its more massively destructive , speaking ahead of the blog post's publication.
Samani said "This campaign was a lot bigger" he added "Way larger in terms of the amount of work that needed to be done"
In one of the claims, the 2012 cyber attacks against Saudi Aramco and Quatari natural gas company RasGas were one of the most dangerous cyber attacks ever publicly revealed. It was a huge data wiping attacks that wrecked tens of thousands of computers.
McAfee officials said that the malicious code for attacks used this time were heavily copied from the previous 2012 attack, part of the code seems to have been copied from a previously known hacking group, Rocket Kitten. US cyber security has indicated Iran for the attacks with greater or lesser certainty.
While McAfee has refused to link any particular actors to the incident.
Saudi officials gave little information about the incident saying more than dozen government agencies and companies were effected and a governor adviser didn't responded when asked about the attacks.
The Iranian Embassy in Paris have also not responded to the messages .