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TV report: Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet | ||
2018-11-01 | ||
Iranian infrastructure and strategic networks have come under attack in the last few days by a computer virus similar to Stuxnet but "more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated," and Israeli officials are refusing to discuss what role, if any, they may have had in the operation, an Israeli TV report said Wednesday. The report came hours after Israel said its Mossad intelligence agency had thwarted an Iranian murder plot in Denmark, and two days after Iran acknowledged that President Hassan Rouhani’s mobile phone had been bugged. It also follows a string of Israeli intelligence coups against Iran, including the extraction from Tehran in January by the Mossad of the contents of a vast archive documenting Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and the detailing by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN in September of other alleged Iranian nuclear and missile assets inside Iran, in Syria and in Leb. "Remember Stuxnet, the virus that penetrated the computers of the Iranian nuclear industry?" the report on Israel’s Hadashot news asked. Iran "has admitted in the past few days that it is again facing a similar attack, from a more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated virus than before, that has hit infrastructure and strategic networks." The Iranians, the TV report went on, are "not admitting, of course, how much damage has been caused." On Sunday, Gholamreza Jalali, the head of Iran’s civil defense agency, said Tehran had neutralized a new version of Stuxnet, Rooters reported. "Recently we discovered a new generation of Stuxnet which consisted of several parts ... and was trying to enter our systems," Jalali said. The Stuxnet virus was uncovered some eight years ago, and was widely reported to have been developed together by US and Israeli intelligence. It penetrated Iran’s rogue nuclear program, taking control and sabotaging parts of its enrichment processes by speeding up its centrifuges. The TV report noted that "behind the scenes lately, the Mossad," under its director Yossi Cohen, has been "fighting a real shadow war." Without attributing responsibility to the Mossad, the report mentioned the tapping of Rouhani’s phone, noting that the Iranians "had to switch it for an encrypted model because they understand that someone has been listening to him for days and weeks." Iranian marching drill depicts collapse of Star of David-adorned White House
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Posted by:trailing wife |
#6 More violent than destroying centrifuges by overspeeding them? It would have to be spectacular. |
Posted by: KBK 2018-11-01 22:26 |
#5 Iranian marching drill depicts collapse of Star of David-adorned White House Remember this every time you hear some numbskull in the MSM complaining about how Trump is an anti-Semite. |
Posted by: gorb 2018-11-01 14:09 |
#4 |
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2018-11-01 09:44 |
#3 What got into Skidmark? |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-11-01 09:43 |
#2 Once a virus is created, many people take it, reverse engineer it, improve it and then release it. This is the problem and the reason we have over 6,000 new computer viruses every month. There is no evidence here that it is Israel or the US. |
Posted by: bernardz 2018-11-01 08:07 |
#1 America's troops train to win wars In Norway. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2018-11-01 01:08 |