30,000 computers were deleted by hackers at Aramco oil company -Saudi Arabia

The computer virus that may be responsible for a cyberattack on Saudi Aramco was intended to overwrite computers with an image of a burning American flag.

Just hours after an unknown group of computer hackers took credit for a cyberattack on Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, last Wednesday, security researchers at Symantec received a sample of the malware that may be responsible. The malware, named Shamoon after a word that appeared in its code, was designed to spy on computers and then overwrite critical files with a small parcel of a larger image of a burning United States flag.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/among-digital-crumbs-from-saudi-aramco-cyberattack-image-of-burning-u-s-flag/

Pastebin – IP addresses in Aramco : http://pastebin.com/tztnRLQG

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