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F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC
An anonymous reader writes "F-Secure antivirus company of Finland has reported receiving e-mails from an Iranian nuclear scientist, who says Persian uranium-235 isotope refining efforts have just been hit with yet another cyber strike. (Stuxnet, Duqu and Flamer-Skywiper being the previous iterations of the same Operation Project Olympic attack plan.) Last month, President Obama's staff has admitted to the New York Times that there is a joint Israel-U.S. cybermilitary operation was behind the mishaps Iranians have recently been suffering with their UF6 gas refining centrifuge systems in the Natanz and Fordo plants. This time, the unverified e-mail claims, a new Metasploit-based malware owns Iranian VPNs, causes fault in the nuclear plants' Siemens-based industrial control systems, and randomly starts to play AC/DC's 'Thunderstruck' aloud via the infected computers' speakers."
This somehow seems like a disinformation campaign by the iranians. With the refinement Flame/Stuxnet had, it seems a bit too amateurish that all of a sudden the attack methods would become so much more primitive and obvious to the victims (I mean, seriously, playing loud music in the middle of the night?)
Yeah, so suddenly the guys who did a lot of work to be undetected will use Metasploit code and disclose their owning of the computers with an AC/DC song ....
Methinks someone is not reaching his objectives and found a good scapegoat as an excuse...
The alternative of course would be that script kiddies are owning Iran's nuclear researchs lab infrastructure ...
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Yeah, but that song is about how bad the USA is at taking care of people, not how awesome it is to live here.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
You only think that because you're thinking in english rather than the newspeak.
Interstate running through his front yard and he think's he's got it so good. But ain't that America?
As a Canadian I found it pretty funny at the time that the song not only charted but became an anthem for (clueless?) patriots.
XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction