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The destructive wiper mocks up files as if encrypted, while in reality overwriting all but core system files

Ten years ago, on Aug. 15, 2012, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company was hit by one of the worst cyber attacks the world has ever seen. Iranian-backed actors, under the guise of a hacktivist group calling itself the Cutting Sword of Justice, used a wiper virus known as Shamoon rigged with a logic bomb to attack the company. The result was a devastating wiping of data across 85% of its Microsoft-based technology, affecting tens of thousands of workstations.