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2012_007

A virus is discovered on oil terminals.

Day	Month	Year	Country	Activity	Incident Type
XX	April	2012	Iran, Islamic Republic of	Offshore	Virus/Ransomware

Summary

A cyberattack on a primary oil terminal resulted in data being wiped from hard drives. While both "virus" and "worm" were terms used to describe the attack, the impact was significant, affecting multiple oil facilities. The main Kharg Island oil terminal, crucial for the nation's crude exports, was disconnected from the Internet to mitigate the attack's spread.

According to sources, despite this, oil production and exports remained undisturbed, even if several oil-linked institution websites went down, it is unclear whether this was due to the attack or a preventive measure to isolate them and prevent further infection or intrusion.

Victim

N/A

Claimed/Reported Threat Actor

N/A

Origin

Undisclosed

Main impact

Integrity

References

Recommendations to Offshore to reduce Virus/Ransomware risks:

Map, understand, patch and secure your exposed assets on the Internet.
Implement email filtering systems to detect and block phishing emails.
Train your organisation, personnel regularly against these threats.
Install efficient Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools.
Work with your CSIRT organization to better understand the Tactics, Techniques and Procedures used by threat actors.
Monitor your IT and OT systems to quickly detect potential pre-ransomware activity.
Implement an efficient offline backup policy.
Encrypt all sensitive data to avoid further data leaks.

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