The company's main Web site remained down.
Saudi Arabia's oil company, Saudi Aramco, says its main internal network is back up after a virus affected 30,000 work stations in mid-August, but the source of the attack remains unclear.
Saudi Aramco said all of the affected workstations have all been cleaned and restored to service and normal business resumed on Saturday when employees returned to work following the Muslim Eid holidays. The primary enterprise systems of hydrocarbon exploration and production were unaffected because they are kept on isolated network systems. Meanwhile, remote Internet access to online resources has been restricted, the statement said.
Saudi Aramco blamed a "malicious virus that originated from external sources" and said it was continuing to "investigate the causes of the incident and those responsible for it," in a statement released yesterday. There was no direct mention of hackers who had claimed responsibility for attacking the energy company.
"Saudi Aramco is not the only company that became a target for such attempts, and this was not the first nor will it be the last illegal attempt to intrude into our systems, and we will ensure that we will further reinforce our systems with all available means to protect against... [Read more]
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