Those pesky worms....

Second computer worm 'hits Iran'

has been hit with new malicious software as part of cyber attacks against the country, a military officer told Mehr news agency on Monday without specifying the target.

"Certain characteristics about the 'Stars' virus have been identified, including that it is compatible with the (targeted) system," Gholam Reza Jalali, commander of the Iranian civil defence organisation, told the agency.

"In the initial stage, the damage is low and it is likely to be mistaken for governmental executable files," Jalali said, adding that Iranian experts were still investigating the full scope of the malware's abilities.

He did not say what kind of equipment the virus was targeting or when and how it had been spotted.

Tehran was hit with another computer worm, "Stuxnet," last year, reportedly designed to hurt the Islamic republic's controversial nuclear programme.

Iran has accused arch-foes Washington and Israel of launching Stuxnet, which was publicly identified last June and reportedly mutated and infected at least 30,000 computerised industrial equipment in the following months.

In December, Iran implicitly admitted its uranium enrichment plant in the central city of Natanz, which is regularly inspected by the UN nuclear watchdog, had been the victim of the worm.

Jalali urged the foreign ministry to take appropriate measures amid the ongoing "cyber attacks" against Iran, and said efforts to contain Stuxnet were still ongoing, Mehr reported.

"Confronting the Stuxnet virus does not mean that the threat has been fully removed, since viruses have a certain life span and it is possible that they continue their activity in a different form," he said.

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Way to go Israel.

Hee, hee, hee.

Just wondering how a virus gets through what should be a closed network.

(04-25-2011 08:10 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  Just wondering how a virus gets through what should be a closed network.

Good question ... I'm sure Iran would like very much to have that answer.

It's a combination of deliberate and inadvertent actions of the scientists/workers.

(04-25-2011 08:26 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(04-25-2011 08:10 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  Just wondering how a virus gets through what should be a closed network.

Good question ... I'm sure Iran would like very much to have that answer.

It's a combination of deliberate and inadvertent actions of the scientists/workers.

Porn and infected Flash Drives.. Hopefully not this type of Porn

You'd think America (population ~310m) could come up with an intelligence agency almost as effective as Israel's (population ~7-8m).

(04-28-2011 03:51 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  You'd think America (population ~310m) could come up with an intelligence agency almost as effective as Israel's (population ~7-8m).

Everything I read previously suggested the US played the major role in creating stuxnet. Is there something contrary to this?

I hope you're right. I've just grown accustomed to America screwing up stuff like this, so I just naturally credit the "success stories" to the Israelis. Hopefully we did play a major role.

(04-28-2011 04:05 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  I hope you're right. I've just grown accustomed to America screwing up stuff like this, so I just naturally credit the "success stories" to the Israelis. Hopefully we did play a major role.

Rest assured, the us and Israel are both involved with stuxnet. Probably other countries as well in terms of intelligence and agents to get it in the door.

The US is only in it to the extent that Bush committed to it before Obama took office. The Liberal Loons would never let a program like this come to fruition. IMO

(04-28-2011 06:55 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  The US is only in it to the extent that Bush committed to it before Obama took office. The Liberal Loons would never let a program like this come to fruition. IMO

I don't know about that Sum....I have seen no indication that this administration has done anything but build upon the Shrub foundations in regard to interventionism. The neocons should love this guy.