As the global oil and gas markets are recovering from the steep sell-off last Monday, threats in the market are not just linked to demand-supply concerns. Cybersecurity specialists reported this week that hackers managed to get access to a large amount of data from Saudi oil giant Aramco. The company has confirmed that around 1TB of (confidential) data was stolen from its servers. According to AP sources, the data has been put on offer on the darknet for a price of $50 million. It is at present still unknown who is behind the data theft, but some are also worried about the fact that no additional information is being given by the parties involved. The world’s largest listed oil company Aramco has been targeted by cyberattacks on a regular basis, such as the well-known Iran-instigated Shamoon virus attacks. This most recent attack on Aramco, shows that there remains a […]