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A secret Dutch mole aided the CIA and Mossad's 2007 Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran
- sterlind 7y ago"August 1945" is a bit of a stretch. Cyberattacks can be severely devastating (for instance, if Russia had opted to spin Ukraine's generators out of phase when they attacked with DarkEnergy, they could have literally destroyed the power grid), and it's hard to objectively gauge impact of things like the DNC leaks, but subtle sabotage and espionage are old tools of tradecraft, and it was inevitable that nation-state APTs would emerge. It's fascinating to learn more of how these attacks work though, and how human assets are used alongside cutting-edge zerodays.
- RyanAF7 7y agoOh cool! Very informative. Only, what did they codename the mole who infiltrated Microsoft to provide the several zero day windows exploits?
- ryacko 7y agoAll the Iranian enrichment tubes are manufactured by Siemens. It might be as simple as barring Siemens from selling to Iran. https://new.siemens.com/ir/en.html https://new.siemens.com/ir/en.html