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Laelth

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25. Very interesting theory.
Thu Jun 13, 2013, 04:17 PM
Jun 2013

But, if that's true, how do you explain the fact that Iran launched a cyber-attack on Saudi Arabia's national oil company?

From the link I cited:

In August 2012 a devastating virus was unleashed on Saudi Aramco, the giant Saudi state-owned energy company. The malware infected 30,000 computers, erasing three-quarters of the company’s stored data, destroying everything from documents to email to spreadsheets and leaving in their place an image of a burning American flag, according to The New York Times. Just days later, another large cyberattack hit RasGas, the giant Qatari natural gas company. Then a series of denial-of-service attacks took America’s largest financial institutions offline. Experts blamed all of this activity on Iran, which had created its own cyber command in the wake of the US-led attacks.


If it wasn't Iran attacking us and our allies, who was it?



-Laelth

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