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The world is dispensing with Saudi oil exports for more than two to three weeks, Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz Bin Salman said at a cybersecurity event in Riyadh.
The biggest risk to energy security comes from cyber attacks, the minister said at the Global Cyber Security Forum, quoted by The Saudi Gazette.
Saudi Arabia and other energy makers deserve to be cautious and not take protection for granted, the energy minister of the world’s largest crude oil exporter said.
Cyberattacks are the biggest dangers facing Saudi Aramco these days, Amin Nasser, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest oil company, said in September.
“But as those attacks grow in scale and severity, AI is helping to defend against some of the threats. Therefore, our efforts will need to focus not only on greater power or greater understanding of customers, but also on safety and resilience,” the senior executive of Saudi Aramco added.
Aramco itself has been the target of several cyberattacks in recent years, the most infamous being the 2012 Shamoon malware that destroyed all of the Saudi oil company’s computers. In 2018, a variant of the Shamoon malware resurfaced, cybersecurity experts warned at the time. Last year, Aramco was the subject of a data breach that prompted a ransom request for $50 million in cryptocurrency.
In a physical attack that halted some of Saudi Arabia’s oil production for days, Aramco’s services were hit by drone attacks claimed by Houthi rebels in September 2019.
By Michael Kern for Oilprice. com
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