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Saipem servers suffer cyber attack in Middle East

Posted on December 10, 2018 by Dissent

Stephen Jewkes reports:

Italian oil services company Saipem said it had identified a cyber attack out of India on Monday that had primarily affected its servers in the Middle East.

[…]

Saipem’s head of digital and innovation, Mauro Piasere, told Reuters the attack had originated in Chennai, India. 


Servers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait had been attacked as too, partially, had infrastructure in Aberdeen in Scotland, he said.

Read more on Reuters.

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