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Iranian Hackers Compromised Airlines, Critical Infrastructure Companies
itwbennett writes: For the past two years, a team of Iranian hackers has compromised computers and networks belonging to over 50 organizations in 16 countries, including airlines, defense contractors, universities, military installations, hospitals, airports, telecommunications firms, government agencies, and energy and gas companies, researchers from IT security firm Cylance said in an extensive report released Tuesday (PDF). According to the report, "ten of these victims are headquartered in the U.S. and include a major airline, a medical university, an energy company specializing in natural gas production, an automobile manufacturer, a large defense contractor, and a major military installation."
...oh wait. Too late.
You forgot Syria too.
So Stuxnet; what a fucking good idea. Let's all start a computer virus arms war. No blowback from that for first world computer dominated societies. No sir; none at all.
OTOH; at least the OpenBSD and SELinux guys may finally get a bit of attention; if only we can find some non compromised hardware to run it on.
Another reason for an all out war is just what this world needs, especially the U.S..
Gees, talking about lame, only fifty organisations in then years, that's pretty lame, the NSA does that in about ten minutes. So if the Iranians are meant to be considered evil for doing it what does that make the NSA. Of course the most important thing not mentioned in the story was how significant were the hacks, how quickly were they discovered and how difficult were they to remove. Hmm, also were they discovered by the NSA just because the NSA was hacking those systems themselves and just discovered those 'other people's' hacks as a result.
PS. Due to the nature of the internet and the predilection of black hat hackers to use other people's computers, that they have already hacked, in order to reduce risk when targeting high risk targets. You are meant to say, hacks sourced out of Iran but you can not claim Iranians did it with out significant proof, for all we know the NSA could have conducted those attacks remotely via computers they had already hacked in Iran. So would the NSA do this, from all indications, abso'fucking'lutely, especially based on anti-Iran Israeli government policy and their ability to control their foolishly bumbling attack dog, Uncle Sam.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Also, not that it matters, but Iraq is pretty much Iranian in leadership after Bush gave it to them.
Consequences.
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How did these hackers compromise these 'computers' and what was the name of the Operating System?
Cached Windows passwords and SQL injection allow gaping holes into critical network infrastructure. Whoever would have guessed?
Hold on. You have to slow down. You're losing it. You have to take a breath. Listen to yourself. You're connecting a computer bug I had with a computer bug you might have had and some religious hogwash. You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere.
Iranian here, Iranian hacker can eat their shit ! these are just Iran Regime propaganda !
There was a time Iran was an ally to USA.Iran is still an ally, but due to the interests of certain groups they are not allowed to be official ally and have to be in a role of the bad ones.
What would the country do if you realize, one day, that all your critical systems are infected/stuxneted by known and unkown malware?
and the american public.
So with the tapering off of any blockbuster Snowden leaks, Slashdot is back to promoting some shit security company's scary reports about Iranian/North Korean/Chinese/Russian/Syrian etc., etc. hackerz invading our internetz, stealin' our precious digital flow-ids. Yawn, fucking, yawn.
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Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
In mah intarwebz!
Well then they're *miles* off the achievements of the US and UK agenices.
But it's bad, right, because they're *Iranians* doing the hacking. They shouldn't do it, because they're evil, whereas *our* hacking of exactly the same companies and organizations and in fact the recording of every byte which moves is *good*, because *we're* doing it.
The REALLY NASTY FOLKS are the Saudis. They did 9/11. Unpunished.
Because the Saudis have cracked the U.S. Code. The Code is called HandoutDollarBillsLiberally.
1.) Anglosaxon Coup d'etat against elected government in 1953 and installation of the "Shah" Tyrant.
2.) Jews continue to live in Iran, but not in Saudi-Arabia, where is is prohibited BY LAW.
Am I supposed to burst out into tears over this or run in circles and scream and shout?? So the Iranians took a lesson from the Stuxnet attack on one of their defense programs. I am not interested in the viewpoint where when American 3 letters do it, it is called surveillance, monitoring, cyber intervention and when the other side does the same exact thing then it is called criminal, terrorist hacking. Fuck off and quit insulting peoples' intelligence with redundant fear fodder, the hacking we need to worry the most about is perpetrated by domestic intelligence services.
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Assuming you've never seen the movie "Pi"? go watch it and STFU
Just as Iran begins bombing the isis louts in Iraq, they allegedly also initiate cyber attacks. Why not stop making excuses, and just grab a fucking weapon, and waltz your jingo arses to Iran and shut the fuck up. Right, you'll have American soldiers do it for you. Bravo.
I find it far more likely that this company is run by Zionists and that many of the statements in the report are false or misleading. I'm sure there are hackers in every country. How hard would it be to drum up charges like this?
Stuxnet/Duqu/FLAME and several other exploits were easily tracked to US 3 letter agencies and Israel. Stuxnet was the first Virus created by Government agencies (from any country) specifically intended to cause physical damage, not just perform non-destructive information gathering. Any idiot looking at the facts can make this determination.
Lets not neglect the fact that the US sponsors the largest group of black hat hackers in the world and claims "national security" when people complain about being hacked by them. I'm not talking about the porn spammers like we see out of Russia, I'm talking about people who actually cause physical, social, and financial damage to anyone and everyone including our "Allies".
Now compare what the NSA has done with what these "evil Iranian terrorist haxxors" did in terms of damage. There is no evidence that they did really anything except prove that they can behave like script kiddies. They stole a few files and some personal information, but this is what spear phishing does all the time and with much greater success than this group's 50 companies in a few years time frame. There is no evidence that they damaged anything at all, just a wild speculation which reads like typical fear mongering.
Before you ask for a citation, I'll simply point you to everything Snowden leaked. Not that empirical evidence is of any interest to you or anything...
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Not Israeli.
Iran has everything to lose by even sneezing in the wrong direction, Israel on the other hand has a long history of false flag operations.
Everything to lose?!?!?!
What planet are you on? They're all but openly flipping Obama the bird - and that's only because the Iranians are leaving the openly-flip-Obama-the-bird act to Putin.
What's Obama going to do? Obama's done NOTHING as Putin invades Ukraine. Obama did nothing when his "red line" was breached in Syria in 2013.
Obama's going to do something to Iran because Iranians did some hacking? Given he's done nothing to Putin for an actual invasion, done nothing to the same Putin for actually shooting down a civilian airliner, done nothing to Assad for gassing people - which is literally considered the use of "weapons of mass destruction"?
You think, in the face of that, that the Iranians are going to refrain from a little hacking?
Maybe the Iranians didn't do this, but they wouldn't be in any danger from doing it.
it seems our efforts of sabotage are coming to fruition in the form of retaliation.
always remember, you reap what you sow.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
And requires IE 6/XP and no security updates or anything.
For a minute I thought we were screwed where the utilities corrupt all our agencies so they can't enforce any polices to change this that would somehow cost MBA access to real time reports and money.
http://saveie6.com/
I can assure you they need no help from the Americans.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
We hear everyday news about Chinese, Korean, and Iran hacking stuff, the USA must bom them. Now, yesterday please. So all sheep say with me: meh meh meh
And I say this with no malice but how does anyone know where Cylance's bread is buttered? Attribution is very difficult and to say 'We are certain that' is a bit like calling a quantum mechanical state "certain" - its not but it might be a highly probable outcome.
Given the state of relations between the US and Iran (and Israel and Iran), it would make certain groups very happy for Cylance to announce these "findings." But the outsider has no way of knowing what government contracts Cylance has taken, directly or indirectly that may play into getting a certain result. As always, approach with caution.
"kaJ" is a clever way of spelling "Hack" using roman transliteration and reading right to left as indicated by the capitol J.
> one thing a lot of people often overlook is that Stuxnet required physical infiltration of the Iranian lab to plant the virus. It also required someone
No, Stuxnet was injected by spearfishing and waterholing several companies that make components which later go into SCADA systems, some of which were used in the enrichment facility.
http://blog.kaspersky.com/stux...
Note that the rest of your post is based on reasoning from your mistake about the initial infection. Also BTW, it's a worm, not a virus.