Saudi Arabia Investigating Critical Infrastructure Cyberattack
In August 2017, a petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit with a cyberattack aiming not to simply destroy data but to sabotage the firm’s operations and trigger an explosion.
According to the New York Times, investigators have yet to identify the company targeted and have not identified the culprits, but outside experts claim there are indications that the attackers were likely supported by a government. The only thing that prevented an explosion was an error in the attackers’ code.