https://www.timesofisrael.com/tv-report-israel-silent-as-iran-hit-by-computer-virus-more-violent-than-stuxnet/
By TOI Staff
31 October 2018
Iranian infrastructure and strategic networks have come under attack in
the last few days by a computer virus similar to Stuxnet but "more
violent, more advanced and more sophisticated," and Israeli officials are
refusing to discuss what role, if any, they may have had in the operation,
an Israeli TV report said Wednesday.
The report came hours after Israel said its Mossad intelligence agency had
thwarted an Iranian murder plot in Denmark, and two days after Iran
acknowledged that President Hassan Rouhani’s mobile phone had been bugged.
It also follows a string of Israeli intelligence coups against Iran,
including the extraction from Tehran in January by the Mossad of the
contents of a vast archive documenting Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and
the detailing by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN in September
of other alleged Iranian nuclear and missile assets inside Iran, in Syria
and in Lebanon.
"Remember Stuxnet, the virus that penetrated the computers of the Iranian
nuclear industry?" the report on Israel's Hadashot news asked. Iran "has
admitted in the past few days that it is again facing a similar attack,
from a more violent, more advanced and more sophisticated virus than
before, that has hit infrastructure and strategic networks."
The Iranians, the TV report went on, are "not admitting, of course, how
much damage has been caused."
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