Proxy cyberwar between US & Iran?

Saudi Aramco is the world’s most valuable oil company, and on the one day a year that more than 55,000 of its employees stayed home for a holiday, someone with privileged access to its computers released a computer virus “to initiate what is regarded as among the most destructive acts of computer sabotage on a company to date.  The virus erased data on 3/4 of Aramco’s corporate PCs and replaced all of it with “an image of a burning American flag.” US intelligence officials say they cyberattack was initiated by Iran.  Some said the Aramco hacking was retaliation for Stuxnet, when the United States and Israel unleashed a computer virus to destroy centrifuges in an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010.


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