Posted on 12/02/2011 5:16:18 AM PST by Libloather
Insight: Did Conficker help sabotage Iran's nuke program?
By Jim Finkle
Fri Dec 2, 2011 5:23am EST
(Reuters) - A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious "worm" that surfaced in late 2008 and infected millions of PCs.
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The operators communicated with Stuxnet-infected computers over the Internet through servers using fake soccer websites that they built as a front for their operation: www.mypremierfutbol.com and www.todaysfutbol.com.
If Iranian authorities noticed that traffic, they would be deceived into assuming it was from soccer fans, rather than suspect that something was awry, Bumgarner said.
Once Conficker had pulled Stuxnet into computers in Iran there was still one big hurdle, he said. Those infected computers weren't yet in the target - the underground uranium enrichment facility at Natanz.
Getting the virus in there was one of the trickiest parts of the operation.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
bookmarking for later
To all the Israeli and American spooks out there who work tirelessly behind the scenes to thwart our enemies, I salute you. You are true patriots.
Bookmarking? How about book WRITING? That is some cool stuff right there. You’ll enjoy reading the whole piece.
Interesting story. Of course, it could be disinformation.
Maybe. Who is gonna be the first to go to one of those websites to see what happens to their computer? NOT ME!
Mrkd
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