Shamoon malware returns to again wipe Saudi-owned computers

Thousands of computers in Saudi Arabia's civil aviation agency and other Gulf State organisations have been wiped by the Shamoon malware after it resurfaced some four years after wiping thousands of Saudi Aramco workstations. Security firms FireEye, CrowdStrike, McAfee, PaloAlto, and Symantec reported on the advanced sabotage …

[Anonymous Coward]

Advanced sabotage malware

Excuse me for asking, but how does this Shamoon malware initially infect the 'computers'?

security firms .. reported on the advanced sabotage malware which United States intelligence officials say is (Americas current boogeyman)'s handiwork.

[WolfFan]

Re: Advanced sabotage malware

Iran is the old bogeyman. Little Kim and the Norks are the current bogeyman/men.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Advanced sabotage malware

Not at all.

Putin is at fault for everything!

[WolfFan]

Meanwhile, in Jerusalem

Bibbi Netanyahu is leaning back with a bowl of popcorn, watching the fun. And maybe giving the pot a stir or two when things look like calming down.

[Graham 25]

Well its not as if the Aramco Cyber team in Dammam got stuck in a fight between IT and Corporate Security on who the team should report to - to IT to hide their incompetence or to Corporate Security to sack the corporate IT folks who fought against the recovery programme as to do otherwise would imply it was their fault in the first place is it ?

Its not as if the locals plug in USB sticks all the time is it ?