Recent Cyber Operations Against Oil: Distinct Attacks Against Distinct Targets

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http://analysisintelligence.com/cyber-defense/cyber-operations-against-oil-industry/

By DP
Analysis Intelligence
December 16, 2013

The past two weeks have witnessed a series of cyber attacks against 
several national oil outlets. The oil industry in Angola, Kenya, and 
Mexico have all been targeted by website defacements in these past few 
weeks. The names of OpAngola, OpGreenRights, and OpPemex were attached to 
each, respectively. A timeline view using Recorded Future’s analysis tool 
provides a keen visualization of these attacks in relation to one another.

By the same token, the data underlying the above visualization provides 
additional insight into these three separate attacks. And that’s exactly 
what they are – three distinct hits that, while targeting actors in the 
same industry, are different in their objectives.

OpAngola, for example, went after the government of Angola, the third 
largest oil producer in Africa. AnonGhost led the defacement of some 
seventy government websites, including the Ministry of Oil’s, on December 
4. The operation was launched after claims were made that the Angolan 
government was set to make Islam illegal in the country. Such claims were 
false.

AnonGhost was also behind the defacement of the website belonging to the 
National Oil Corporation of Kenya on December 10. The motivation here is 
less straightforward than in the case of OpAngola, yet the use of the 
hashtag #OpGreenRights with the attack is a clear association with the 
larger OpGreenRights campaign initiated by Anonymous.

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