Iran’s main oil export terminal was infected with a malware-borne attack that reportedly forced the nation to take those systems offline. Security experts say this doesn’t appear to be another Stuxnet, which was an obvious nation state-sponsored attack aimed at disarming Iran’s nuclear operations. An Iranian oil ministry spokesperson said the virus attacks did not affect any major information and that the public servers that were hit are “isolated from the main servers” An analyst says the purpose of such a malware attack would be to “erase data” and shut down operations.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/iran-oil-industry-hit-by-malware-attack