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Olympus Hit by Ransomware Attack

September 8, 2021

Olympus is now investigating the ransomware attack, and the company said the incident occurred in the Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions, and it happened September 8.

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30,000 Hard drives wiped by virus

January 1, 2013

Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, Aramco, said that a cyber attack damaged approximately, 30,000 computers. The attack was aimed at stopping oil and gas production in Saudi Arabia. The company shut down its main internal network for more than a week. The computer virus, Shamoon, spread through Amarco’s network and wiped computers’ hard drives clean. Fortunately, the damage was limited to office computers and didn’t affect control systems software that would impact technical operations.

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