A recent report suggests that the devastating cyber attack that wiped out thousands of computers belonging to Saudi Arabias national oil company was the work of a lone hacker. But that report runs counter to earlier reports, and the official line in Washington, D.C., which is that Shamoon is the leading edge of a coming storm of sophisticated, state-sponsored cyber attacks from America’s enemies in the Middle East, Asia and elsewhere. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, speaking at a conference for Business Executives for National Security in New York on October 11th, cited the incident of a Cyber Pearl Harbor attack as evidence of the danger.”]
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/30/whodunnit-aramco-hack/