Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-12-20 00:00:00
Affected organization: SAIPEM
Affected country: Italy
Industry: Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: An attack on the Italian oil firm Saipem targeted servers based in India, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, and the United Arab Emirates. Hackers used a variant of the Shamoon virus.