Iran described similar attacks in April and pegged them to a virus it called "stars."
That was Duqu too, Schouwenberg said.
HA HA, Iran must be pissed; even if nothing has happened as a result of this new virus.
Foxnews
Iranian officials admitted Sunday that they had uncovered evidence of the Duqu computer virus -- labeled "Son of Stuxnet" by cyber experts -- at the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites, state-controlled IRNA news agency reported.
"We are in the initial phase of fighting the Duqu virus," Gholamreza Jalali, was quoted as saying. "The final report which says which organizations the virus has spread to and what its impacts are has not been completed yet."
Duqu is the second major weaponized virus to turn computers into lethal weapons with devastating destructive power.
The new program, discovered by Symantec in mid-October with the help of an unnamed research lab, uses much of the same code as the 2010 Stuxnet virus did. But instead of destroying the systems it infects, Duqu secretly penetrates them and, according to some experts, creates “back door” vulnerabilities that can be exploited to destroy the networks at any time its creators may choose.
The original Stuxnet malware was the culmination of a vast technical and espionage effort that had only one target in mind: the Iranian nuclear program. And is widely believed to be the work of the United States and Israel. Experts who looked at the program were amazed at its ability to penetrate Iran’s secure, highly protected security system and destroy it without being detected.
Its success set back the Iranian nuclear program for years.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Iran Admits Nuclear Sites Hit by 'Duqu' Cyberweapon
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Israeli Military Reportedly Plotting to Cripple Iran in Cyberspace
Excellent, this is exactly what the U.S. should be doing against China and any other country that tries to pull off a cyber attack against us!
Foxnews
Israel has set up a military cyber command to wage a computer war againstIran as senior officers become increasingly concerned that a conventional attack on Tehran’s nuclear sites could end in failure, London's The Sunday Times reported.
The new cyber command will report directly to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who has placed the program at the heart of Israel’s defense capability.
“Israel must turn into a global cyber superpower,” he told a meeting of cyber warfare experts recently.
The center, which has been set up under the auspices of military intelligence unit 8200 has already conducted a series of “soft” espionage missions, including hacking into Iran’s version of Facebook and other social networking sites.
The Stuxnet malware virus, which dramatically affected Iran’s nuclear program in 2009 by sabotaging the delicate centrifuges needed to enrich uranium, is widely believed to have been developed by Israeli and American technicians.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
In setback, Iran to unload fuel from nuclear plant
Awwww, that's to bad.
Looks like the stuxnet may have done a little more than previously thought.
Or Maybe just some "Technical Difficulties", or maybe some Unqualified Personnel running the show?
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — In a major setback to Iran's nuclear program, technicians will have to unload fuel from the country's first atomic power plant because of an unspecified safety concern, a senior government official said.
The vague explanation raised questions about whether the mysterious computer worm known as Stuxnet might have caused more damage at the Bushehr plant than previously acknowledged. Other explanations are possible for unloading the fuel rods from the reactor core of the newly completed plant, including routine technical difficulties.
While the exact reason behind the fuel's removal is unclear, the admission is seen as a major embarrassment for Tehran because it has touted Bushehr — Iran's first atomic power plant — as its showcase nuclear facility and sees it as a source of national pride. When the Islamic Republic began loading the fuel just four months ago, Iranian officials celebrated the achievement.
Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear monitoring agency in Vienna said that Russia, which provided the fuel and helped construct the Bushehr plant, had demanded the fuel be taken out.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Iran: Sanctions won't stop nuclear drive
"They can even issue 100,000 resolutions," he said, "like we care."
Good one Ahmalitlmunky!
I bet you would care if you guys Discovered another Stuxnet type Virus!
How are those Centrifuges anyways?
Haaretz.com
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday reiterated Iran would not compromise over its nuclear program at multilateral talks scheduled later this week in Istanbul.
"Today we are making progress in the nuclear field and they can say and do whatever they want," Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by the official news agency IRNA.
The president said that United Nations Security Council resolutions and sanctions would not stop the Iranian nuclear drive.
"They can even issue 100,000 resolutions," he said, "like we care."
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Report: U.S.-Israel Tested Worm Linked to Iran Atom Woes
The Times said the worm was the most sophisticated cyber-weapon ever deployed and appeared to have been the biggest factor in setting back Iran's nuclear march. Its sources said it caused the centrifuges to spin wildly out of control and that a fifth of them had been wiped out.
From the onset of the Stuxnet Virus/worm, it was clear that it was designed to attack Iran.
Awesomely nice Job!
foxnews
WASHINGTON -- Israel has tested a computer worm believed to have sabotaged Iran's nuclear centrifuges and slowed its ability to develop an atomic weapon, The New York Times reported Saturday.
In what the Times described as a joint Israeli-U.S. effort to undermine Iran's nuclear ambitions, it said the tests of the destructive Stuxnet worm had occurred over the past two years at the heavily guarded Dimona complex in the Negev desert.
The newspaper cited unidentified intelligence and military experts familiar with Dimona who said Israel had spun centrifuges virtually identical to those at Iran's Natanz facility, where Iranian scientists are struggling to enrich uranium.
"To check out the worm, you have to know the machines," an American expert on nuclear intelligence told the newspaper. "The reason the worm has been effective is that the Israelis tried it out."
Friday, December 10, 2010
Stuxnet Worm Still Out of Control
This on the other hand is one of the most hilarious cases of internet abuse ever perpetrated.
A vision of Imalitlmunky , jumping up and down while shaking his fists and screaming like a little baby come to mind every time I see this in the news.
Foxnews
Iran's nuclear program is still in chaos despite its leaders' adamant claim that they have contained the computer worm that attacked their facilities, cybersecurity experts in the United States and Europe say.
The American and European experts say their security websites, which deal with the computer worm known as Stuxnet, continue to be swamped with traffic from Tehran and other places in the Islamic Republic, an indication that the worm continues to infect the computers at Iran's two nuclear sites.
The Stuxnet worm, named after initials found in its code, is the most sophisticated cyberweapon ever created. Examination of the worm shows it was a cybermissile designed to penetrate advanced security systems. It was equipped with a warhead that targeted and took over the controls of the centrifuge systems at Iran’s uranium processing center in Natanz, and it had a second warhead that targeted the massive turbine at the nuclear reactor in Bashehr
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Stuxnet may be part of Iran atom woes
Ha Ha ! Iran Having some problems with their Centrifuges ?
Aww , how funny though!
(Reuters) - Iran has been experiencing years of problems with equipment used in its uranium enrichment program and the Stuxnet computer virus may be one of the factors, a former top U.N. nuclear inspections official said.
Olli Heinonen, who stepped down in August as head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's inspections worldwide, said there may be many reasons for technical glitches that have cut the number of working centrifuges at Iran's Natanz enrichment plant.
"One of the reasons is the basic design of this centrifuge ... this is not that solid," Heinonen, a former deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and now a senior fellow at Harvard University, told Reuters on Friday.
Asked about the Stuxnet virus, he said: "Sure, this could be one of the reasons ... There is no evidence that it was, but there has been quite a lot of malfunctioning centrifuges."
Security experts have said the release of Stuxnet could have been a state-backed attack on Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is designed to produce electricity but which Western leaders suspect is a disguised effort to develop nuclear bombs.
Friday, October 8, 2010
World’s first ‘cyber superweapon’ attacks China
Some of that Karma B.S. Again .
China will not say anything much about this attack , it will be "Hushed" in good old Communist Fashion .
It could not have happened to a nicer Country !
Dawn.com
BEIJING: A computer virus dubbed the world’s “first cyber superweapon” by experts and which may have been designed to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities has found a new target – China.
The Stuxnet computer worm has wreaked havoc in China, infecting millions of computers around the country, state media reported this week...
“This malware is specially designed to sabotage plants and damage industrial systems, instead of stealing personal data,” an engineer surnamed Wang at antivirus service provider Rising International Software told the Global Times.
“Once Stuxnet successfully penetrates factory computers in China, those industries may collapse, which would damage China’s national security,” he added.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Iran insists computer worm was Western plot
Yes , We unleashed this virus on Iran that is why it also attacked Computers here in the U.S.!
Odd how Iran keeps insisting the Stuxnet virus has not infected there main Computers
foxnews
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's foreign ministry spokesman is claiming that a computer worm found on the laptops of several employees at the country's nuclear power plant is part of a covert Western plot to derail the Iranian atomic program.
Ramin Mehmanparast says it won't make Iran "give up or stop" its nuclear activities, which the U.S. and its allies fear are geared toward making atomic weapons. Iran denies those charges.
Mehmanparast's remarks on Tuesday were the strongest yet on Tehran's suspicions over the worm.
The malicious computer code
, designed to take over industrial sites such as the Bushehr nuclear power plant, has also emerged in India, Indonesia and the U.S.
Iran said the Stuxnet worm infected personal computers of Bushehr employees but not the plant's main systems.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Start-up of Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant delayed
Well that did not take long !
And of course it was not the Stuxnet Worm .
BBC
The head of Iran's atomic agency says power generation from its first nuclear plant will probably begin in January - two months later than announced.
Ali Akbar Salehi said the apparent delay at the Bushehr reactor had nothing to do with the Stuxnet computer worm, but gave no other explanation.
