In June of 2010, a security firm in Belarus called VirusBlokAda reported the first known citing of what we know now as Stuxnet. It was, simply put, the most advanced malware of all time. Its target? Iran. Its origin? Unknown. Until now.
The New York Times is reporting today that the source of the worm so advanced some thought it was alien weapon was us. And it wasn’t the first.
Iran claims that their engineers have reverse engineered the secrets of the American stealth spy drone RQ-170 Sentinel that went down in their territory last December. To prove it, they have made public some of the encrypted information stored in the plane. If confirmed, it’s very bad news for the United States.
Speaking on state television, the commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards’ air force—chief Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh—showed proof of their achievement…
Iran may or may not be decoding American drone data right now, but one thing’s for sure: someone cyber-punched the crap out of its oil infrastructure. Internet war!
The BBC reports that 90% of the country’s oil export network is now out of commission…
Iran has had it up to here with the Internet—Google’s easy access to information, iTunes’ funneling in of Western Media, and don’t even get them started on Stuxnet—all totally the Internet’s fault. So, to preserve theocratic rule in the modern era, Iran is cutting off the Internet. Like, completely.
The U.S. and Britain on Sunday urged Israel not to attack Iran’s nuclear program as the White House’s national security adviser arrived in the region, reflecting growing international jitters that the Israelis are poised to strike.
Bad news if you like Earth unthreatened by crazy people wielding nukes: Iran just claimed significant advancements on its path to nuclear weapons.
Iran’s got some new uranium enrichment centrifuges, which will let it produce fuel-grade uranium faster. It also just loaded its first batch of domestically produced fuel into a research reactor. That’s important, as imported fuel has run dry, with the rest of the world trying desperately to dissuade Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons with assorted sanctions and resolutions.
An Iranian news agency reports that more than 30 million people in the country have lost access to foreign e-mail services such as Gmail, Yahoo mail and Hotmail.
The Saturday report by the semiofficial Mehr agency says that the authorities in the national telecommunications company declined to comment on the outage that began Thursday, saying that it had no connection to them.
A new Facebook scam tricks people into downloading malware by using a fake CNN report about World War III.
If you see a post on Facebook that claims the US just attacked Saudi Arabia and Iran, don’t believe it. And please, whatever you do, don’t click the link. It’s just another Facebook scam, reports Graham Cluley at Sophos’ Naked Security blog. This time, rather than playing on users’ desire for free iPads and get-rich-quick schemes, the swindlers are exploiting fears of impending doom.
Iran will in the “near future” start enriching uranium deep inside a mountain, a senior official said, a move likely to further antagonize Western powers which suspect Tehran is seeking nuclear weapons capability.
Iran is less than a year away from being unstoppable in its goal of producing a nuclear weapon, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview with CNN released on Saturday
