In addition to criminal money-making, malware can be used for sabotage, often for political motives. Stuxnet, for example, was designed to disrupt very specific industrial equipment. There have been politically motivated attacks which spread over and shut down large computer networks, including massive deletion of files and corruption of master boot records, described as "computer killing." Such attacks were made on Sony Pictures Entertainment (25 November 2014, using malware known as Shamoon or W32.Disttrack) and Saudi Aramco (August 2012).
In addition to criminal money-making, malware can be used for sabotage often for political motives. Stuxnet, for example, was designed to disrupt very specific industrial equipment. There. have been politically motivated attacks which spread over and shut down large computer networks, including massive deletion of files and corruption of master boot records, described as "computer killing" Such attacks were made .on Sony Pictures Entertainment (25 November 2014, using malware known as Shamoon or W32Disttrack) and Saudi A,ramco (August 2012).