Sources: hacks of Saudi petro firms in 2017 intended to trigger an explosion via compromised Schneider Electric controllers deployed in ~18k plants worldwide
In August, a petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit by a new kind of cyberassault.
“The only thing that prevented an explosion was a mistake in the attackers' computer code.” Chilling story. Fear of this kind of retaliation is what has stopped U.S. officials from launching aggressive cybeattacks to punish Russia, Iran, etc. http://twitter.com/...
Important story on how cyberattacks in Saudi Arabia were intended to trigger an actual explosion at a petrochemical plant - and that this kind of attack may be replicated elsewhere.@nicoleperlroth @ckraussshttps://t.co/oevr3xMbTl
Saudi petrochemical companies were hit by a series of cyberattacks last year. In some, hackers replaced corporate data with the image of the drowned Syrian toddler. The worst of them was designed to trigger an explosion. Latest from Cliff Krauss and me. https://www.nytimes.com/..…