Posted on 07/24/2012 12:17:53 PM PDT by GSWarrior
Iranian nuclear facilities have reportedly been attacked by a music virus, turning on lab PCs at night and blasting AC/DCs Thunderstruck.
Mikko Hypponen, Chief Researcher at Finnish digital security firm F-secure, publicly released a letter he received from an unnamed Iranian scientist. The researcher, who claimed to work for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said that another virus has struck the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran and a secret underground research facility at Fordo, southwest of Tehran.
The letters author reported that the virus shut down equipment (made by Germanys Siemens Corporation) and automated systems at both research centers.
Hypponen published the letter on his blog, but cautioned that there is no way for him to verify the accusations. He was able to confirm, however, that the letter did originate from the AEOIs servers.
The letter, which was reportedly sent to various cybersecurity experts, said that Metasploits Penetration Testing Software had been used to direct this new attack on Irans nuclear facilities. The scientist stressed that he is not a cybersecurity specialist, and does not have detailed information on the virus.
There was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the middle of the night with the volume maxed out. I believe it was playing Thunderstruck by AC/DC, the scientist wrote.
If true, this attack is the third hacking attempt aimed at Tehrans controversial nuclear program. In 2010, the state-of-the-art Stuxnet virus set Irans nuclear ambitions back by at least two years.
In May 2012, experts at Russias Kaspersky Laboratories exposed another Trojan virus called Flame, which was designed to spy on web activity in Iran and some Middle Eastern countries. Russian cybersecurity experts labeled Flame probably the most complicated virus ever.
Iran claimed to have found a way to neutralize Flame.
...a "music" virus, turning on lab PCs at night and blasting AC/DC's "Thunderstruck."I object to the use of quote marks around music -- there's more talent in that band's sloughed-off dead skin cells than there are in the whole lot of the highly-paid no-talent crap popular today.
"Rock the Casbah"?
Hee Hee!
“Rock the Casbah”?
Sherif don’t like it.
Now that’s clever!
Hahaha You been THUNDERSTRUCK
If *only* they could blast the ayatollah out of his bed at 3 AM.
See your Sherif and raise you an Eric Clapton:
"I Shot the Sheriff"
lol, we could go on like this all afternoon.
I love your choice of “Hava Nagila”. Very funny and appropriate.
This youtube video/music is synced with lights - I ‘d like to see this synced with the centrifuges and nuclear reactors and be able to watch the fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkgFsRJ9DVc&feature=relmfu
or this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXh7JR9oKVE
“America, F Yeah” from “Team America”
Oh, yeah! "Drop your bombs between the minarets..."
Great call!
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