Posted on 06/10/2015 1:11:53 PM PDT by Theoria
Earlier this spring, the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky was testing an advanced antivirus software on one of its computers when it stumbled on something big: As the Moscow-based company puts it, it was "one of the most skilled, mysterious and powerful" spy viruses in the world.
The piece of software was so sophisticated that it left few traces. It didn't leave files on the disk drive, and to stay hidden, it burrowed inside a computer's kernel memory, which is the place where a computer's most basic software is kept.
Kaspersky says it assigned a team to watch its movements, and the team members found out they were dealing with Duqu — a malware program that previous reports had connected to the Israeli government.
Subsequently, Kaspersky launched a worldwide search for the virus on millions of computers and discovered it in three luxury hotels in Europe. All of those hotels, Kaspersky says, were used during talks between Iran and Western powers over Iran's nuclear deal.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the story, adds:
"Researchers at the company acknowledge that many questions remain unanswered about how the virus was used and what information may have been stolen. Among the possibilities, the researchers say, the intruders might have been able to eavesdrop on conversations and steal electronic files by commandeering the hotel systems that connect to computers, phones, elevators and alarms, allowing them to turn them on and off at will to collect information.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Or the NSA under Obama is running an operation to discredit Israel.
For sure! If Israel did it, it wouldn’t be discovered.
Good! Israel has the ability to monitor these traitorous negotiations w Iran
Unlikely.
Israel has unmatched human intelligence and far better hi-tech types of intelligence, although it might be a diversion of some kind.
FWIW, I believe Kaspersky has been totally corrupted by the Putin regime...particularly for the Ukraine venture.
At least SOMEONE knows what the Iranians are up to.
These bombs are aimed AT ISRAEL.
Makes me proud to be Jewish. If we have to suffer some sort of bigoted stereotype, let it be that we’re smart, tough people that you f*** with at your own risk.
Agreed.
I know what you mean. Just because this country might be dumb to get caught doesn’t mean that Israel is.
I thought not.
Amen to that and I’m not even Jewish!
Israeli covert ops are the reason Iran has no nuclear bomb
Anyone who knows anything about operating systems, virtual address space, user and kernel mode (ie virtual address spaces), processes and threads knows that this article is so wrong on so many technical details that it is worthless.
I’ve seen entire departments throw a spaz and shut down there servers because some programmer left a temporary bourne shell script in /var/tmp and the “security officer” freaked out when some bogus intrusion detection software threw an alarm.
Given the errors in this article I’d chaulk it up to poor propoganda or click bait.
Always remember that the first casualty of war is “Truth”!
there = their
Probably. A military attack by Israel on Iran nukes has been mostly impossible for a very long time. Other methods are being used.
L’chaim!
Maybe it is time for a virus to hit the Middle East that doesn’t infect computers but the users
Drop some small pox or some other killer plague on ISIS
Why would they reveal this?
Are they for Iran building nuclear bombs to kill millions of people?
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