Posted on 08/28/2019 6:05:11 PM PDT by bitt
A cyberattack carried out by U.S. Cyber Command against Iran in June severely impacted a database used by Iran to target oil tankers, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Government officials told The New York Times that the secret cyberattack temporarily hurt Iran’s ability to target shipping traffic in the Persian Gulf.
The officials discussed the consequences of the cyberattack in order to “quell doubts within the Trump administration” as to whether the attack was worth the loss of access to key intelligence sources in Iran, the Times reported.
U.S. Cyber Command targeted a network run by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s paramilitary forces, that U.S. intelligence reported was involved in an attack on American oil tankers earlier this year.
Iran is still working to get all its systems back online and recover data that was lost during the June cyberattack, according to the Times.
The cyberattack took place the same day President Trump called off planned military strikes on Iran in retaliation for shooting down an unarmed U.S. surveillance drone. Iran claimed the drone was in its airspace, while U.S. officials said it was in international airspace.
The White House has not commented on the Times story.
Iran denied in June that the cyberattack was successful. Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran’s minister for information and communications technology, said that Americans “try hard but have not carried out a successful attack,” adding that Iran’s national firewall helped to block this attack and others.
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Achmed, I found a new porn site!
Bullshit, sink some assets too.
If true they should find the traitor who leaked it to the NYT and shoot them.
Agree!
Probably millions of developments costs now wasted!
Who can believe anything you read in the nyt, or the hill for that matter. There is no trusted news outlet with a credible history of reporting in the united States.
I go the other way ...
this is good PR, because it keeps the Iranian leadership scared, and boosts the image of the US’s technical capabilities ... makes potential enemies think twice
The US govt should use fake news to overcome the Iranian regime the same way the leftist media uses it to try and destroy Trump....................
Need to be found and run through a Gitmo blender...
the response should have exceeded their action. Take out the cyber capabilities AND destroy the Iranian Navy.
NYT types think they can get away with anything.
Let’s prove them wrong. At least in court. Outside OR,CA and the 9th Circuit maybe, just maybe, there is justice.
If this had happened under Obamaster the media would have been in on it from day one and reporting before it even happened.
“this is good PR, because it keeps the Iranian leadership scared, and boosts the image of the US’s technical capabilities ... makes potential enemies think twice”
Didn’t the Jooz just damage a nuclear facility over there? Nuts are not afraid of their enemies. Ask Adam Schiff.
Why?
Without a doubt. Also, since they expected a hard attack I would guess that every radar and every command post was up and active along with much of their anti-aircraft sites. This is what we admitted to. How much snooping did we do that isn’t talked about. Electronic intel treasure trove, I’m sure.
Information Operations, Psychological Operations, Military Information Support Operations, whichever term of art you prefer.
The Iranians are still leery of the attack that didn't come.
Now they will waste resources and man-hours searching for a cyber threat that may or may not be there.
Since they will be unable to prove a negative, and any cyber capability we possibly might have used will be extremely hard to detect, this puts the Iranians in an extremely wasteful, infinite "DO" loop, causing them to mistrust their own systems, and ruining their peace of mind.
Total cost to the U.S. might be a single article in the New York Slimes.
This proves that the The New York Times thinks its readers are idiots.
Here’s some shocking news: We disrupt Iranian communication systems constantly.
There is little point to disrupting their radar or ship tracking.
The Strait of Hormuz is so narrow, you can easily see and identify every ship passing through, from Iranian shores.
Except at night, when few tankers move through because of the danger of collision.
Would have been easier to describe it as “disinformation”. But, you are right.
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