Russian experts flee Iran, escape dragnet for cyber worm smugglers

DEBKAfile ^

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

debkafile's intelligence sources report from Iran that dozens of Russian nuclear engineers, technicians and contractors are hurriedly departing Iran for home since local intelligence authorities began rounding up their compatriots as suspects of planting the Stuxnet malworm into their nuclear program. Among them are the Russian personnel who built Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr which Tehran admits has been damaged by the virus. One of the Russian nuclear staffers, questioned in Moscow Sunday, Oct. 3 by Western sources, confirmed that many of his Russian colleagues had decided to leave with their families after team members were detained for questioning at the beginning of last week. He refused to give his name because he and his colleagues intend to return to Iran if the trouble blows over and the detainees are quickly released after questioning.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Run Russkis Run!!! LOL!

[ncfool]

msp the israeli intelligence agency mossad working with russia current .
all I can say is mazal tov Simon tov!

[eleni121]

Zero hour is approaching...

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

A really smart guy once said Halloween.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Hey Aminajob(sp): Chase out the Russians as you ask them to sell you the S-300 system.

[Thunder90]

It’s Debka. They have a 10% truth rating. Even the psychic hotline has a better record than Debka.

[Thunder90]

Debka file is NOT to be believed...

The Russians will stay in Iran. And Putin loves it.

[mainsail that]

When all your eggs are in a Russian basket, you are f$%&!

[chris_bdba]

Teehehe....might just be a tad hard to go fully nuke when all of your data is gone?

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

The Russians have done this before

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks_during_the_2008_South_Ossetia_war

[garjog]

Wonder if this is the deal that Omama gave the Russians for pulling our interceptors out of Czech Republic?

[dila813]

Couldn’t have turned out better!

[unkus]

Zero hour is approaching...

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Yes it is.

[CurlyDave]

I wonder if the reactor is dead forever, along with much of Iran’s industry.

Would you be willing to load nuclear fuel into a reactor if it had been scrubbed by an anti-virus company and pronounced “clean”? What if something residual is left?

No way to know until it craps out in the middle of something vital. Same with a lot of other industrial installations.

[prophetic]

Its one thing to have a functioning nuclear reactor for peaceful purposed,
its worse yet as in Irans' case since the whole world knows its for weapon development,
but the ultimate is a malfunctioning & sabotaged reactors which may potentially blow its top via a cyber-worm and spew nuclear radiation all over the middle east and then contaminate the millions of peaceful loving muslims they have as neighbors!!

[Myrddin]

The current Stuxnet is targeted at two specific Siemens PLC modules. It propagates to the project file of the programming software. Every time the software is launched to work on the PLC code, the worm is propagated. Now that a paradigm of attack exists, you can expect the example to be played out against additional PLC and like devices. While this has kicked Iran's nuclear program in the crotch, it has the capability to visit other countries (including ours) and be targeted at assets that matter to us. I believe the phrase is, "blowback is a bitch".

[Rebelbase]

And the Russians had it done to them at least once before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_pipeline_sabotage

[Pride_of_the_Bluegrass]

Yes I know

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/96unclass/farewell.htm

[Hardraade]

Really?? Kinda irritating with these loudmouthed joos, issit?