The massive StuxNet Worm that appears to have been designed for sabotage has been successfully implanted into the control system of the Iran nuclear reactor that recently came online to enrich uranium for Iran’s weapons program.
DEBKA, an Israeli intelligence web site has reported that the Iranian government is in a state of crisis over this. The story entitled:
An alarmed Iran asks for outside help to stop rampaging Stuxnet malworm
can be viewed at: http://www.debka.com/article/9050/
Israeli Intel Sources via DEBKA report that a clandestine cyber war is being fought against Iran by the United States and Israel, using elite cyber war units established by Israel. Stuxnet is believed to be the most destructive virus ever devised for attacking major industrial complexes, reactors and infrastructure.
DEBKA Mahmoud Alyaee, secretary-general of Iran?s industrial computer servers, including its nuclear facilities control systems, confirmed that 30,000 computers belonging to classified industrial units had been infected and disabled by the malicious Stuxnet virus. The Iranian official said Stuxnet had been designed to strike the industrial control systems in Iran manufactured by the German Siemens and transfer classified data abroad.
The head of the Pentagon?s cyber war department, Vice Adm. Bernard McCullough said Thursday, Sept. 22, that Stuxnet had capabilities never seen before. In a briefing to the Armed Forces Committee of US Congress, he testified that it was regarded as the most advanced and sophisticated piece of Malware to date.
