Saudi government bodies hit by computer virus attack: Report

‘Saudi government agencies and installations, including the country’s transport sector, have recently been hit by a computer virus attack, a government institution says.
The official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted the National Cyber Security Center, a division of the Saudi Interior Ministry, as saying on Thursday that the attack took place in mid-November, without elaborating on the identity of the hackers or the scale of the damage caused.
The virus was attempting to disrupt servers and plant malicious software in the kingdom’s computer systems, the center was cited as saying.’
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