Overview

In November of 2016, employees of Saudi Arabia civil aviation, among five other government organizations, returned to work after a long weekend to discover that they had been the victims of a large scale cyber-attack. The hackers optimized the destruction by beginning on a Thursday evening, to be sure that an entire weekend would pass before the infiltration was discovered. When all was said and done, 35,000 machines were compromised with data erased from more than 1000 computers.