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June 21, 2012

Report: U.S., Israel Used Virus in Sustained Bid to Disrupt Iran’s Nuclear Activities 
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New details have been revealed on the massive U.S.-Israeli cyberweapons
operation against Iran. The Washington Post reports the United States
and Israel have used a virus named Flame that secretly mapped Iran's
internal computer networks and sent back intelligence to be used for a
sustained effort to disrupt Iran's nuclear activities. Flame was
developed with the involvement of the National Security Agency, the CIA
and the Israeli military. It was used alongside "Olympic Games," another
cyberweapons program targeting Iran that unleashed the global computer
virus Stuxnet. The Obama administration's cyber-campaign in Iran is
believed to be the first sustained effort by one country to destroy
another's infrastructure through computer attacks.

 

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