Insiders with high-level access to the network helped attackers target Aramco, the world's biggest oil company based out of Saudi Arabia, according to Reuters. In August, In August, Aramco disclosed a malware infection had infected 30,000 of its systems. The infection deleted the data on the computers and then rendered the machines unusable. The Aramco incident may be the largest malware-based attack on a single organization in history, and it took the oil company two weeks to recover.

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