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US says Shamoon was most destructive to Mideast private sector
- Middle East: Saturday, October 13 - 2012 at 02:02
US defence secretary Leon Panetta has said a computer virus that wiped crucial business data from tens of thousands of computers at Middle Eastern energy companies over the summer marked the most destructive cyber-attack on the private sector to date, The Independent has reported. Panetta did not say who was believed to be behind the 'Shamoon' virus, but he said the malware, which rendered permanently inoperable more than 30,000 computers at the Saudi Arabian state oil company Aramco and did similar damage to the systems of RasGas in Qatar, represented a "significant escalation of the cyber-threat."
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