I’m betting WEF sabotage teams did it, as well as many of the ‘accidents’ that have been happening at food production facilities lately.
Of course, could be a smoke screen to get us more involved in the Ukraine/Russia standoff.
Yep, the same Russians who conspired to get Trump elected and the same hackers who gave the DNC emails to Wikileaks....../s
XENOTIME rose to prominence in December 2017 when Dragos and FireEye jointly published details of TRISIS (also known as TRITON, the focus of the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations for ICS) destructive malware targeting Schneider Electric’s Triconex safety instrumented system.
https://www.dragos.com/threat/xenotime/
MITRE report https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0088/
Oct 23, 2020
WHEN MYSTERIOUS HACKERS triggered the shutdown of a Saudi Arabian oil refinery in August of 2017, the subsequent investigation found that the malware used in that attack had unprecedented, uniquely lethal potential: It was intended to disable safety systems in the plant designed to prevent dangerous conditions that could lead to leaks or explosions. Now, three years later, at least one Russian organization responsible for that callous cyberattack is being held to account.
Today the US Treasury imposed sanctions on Russia’s Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics, the organization that exactly two years ago was revealed to have played a role in the hacking operation that used that malware known as Triton or Trisis, intended to sabotage the Petro Rabigh refinery’s safety devices. Triton was designed specifically to exploit a vulnerability in the Triconex-branded “safety-instrumented systems” sold by Schneider Electric. Instead, it triggered a failsafe mechanism that shut down the Rabigh plant altogether.
The hackers who deployed Triton, given the name Xenotime by the industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos, have also probed US power grid targets, according to Dragos and the Electric Information Sharing and Analysis Center, scanning for points of entry into the networks of American utilities.
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-sanctions-triton-malware/
Treasury Sanctions Russian Government Research Institution Connected to the Triton Malware
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1162
References https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/actor/xenotime
We have to wait for the report, but it is not unlikely that this group was responsible.
There was no explosion or widespread destruction of any kind. When a story starts by exaggerating what actually happened, when there was extensive coverage and video of what happened, the story is clickbait and the "anonymous experts" do not know what they are talking about - if they exist at all.
There was a gas leak and a fire that was contained and controlled fast. Any damage that impairs function of a facility like that is going to take a long time to fix. More likely reduced maintenance due to Covid is catch up to manufacturing and processing industries.
The FBI can only connect Russians to Trump. They will never find out what actually happened. Unless they find a trump maga hat in the rubble.