Whelp...! Just what we need -- #WorldWar3.

#Iran launches missile attack on #Israel

Story by Tom Vanden Brook, Cybele Mayes-Osterman and Kim Hjelmgaard

October 1, 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/iran-launches-missile-attack-on-israel/ar-AA1rwMKp?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=8dccf303fe2a4f92a979d5cac0605e9a&ei=7

Iran's Nuclear Timetable: The Weapon Potential

September 18, 2024

by Valerie Lincy and Gary Milhollin

"This timetable estimates how soon Iran could enrich enough uranium to fuel a small nuclear arsenal. It assumes Iran would try to build an arsenal of five warheads of the implosion type – the goal Iran set for itself when it began to work on nuclear weapons decades ago. With its thousands of gas centrifuges, some operating and some in storage, Iran can enrich uranium to a grade suitable for nuclear reactor fuel or to a higher grade suitable for nuclear weapons. On January 5, 2020, Iran announced that it would no longer observe any limit (such as that set by the nuclear accord of 2015) on the use of its centrifuges, or on the possession of uranium they enrich. Since then, Iran has expanded its stockpile of enriched uranium, increased the enrichment level of that stockpile, and brought more advanced centrifuges into operation.

"The analysis below reflects the status of Iran’s enrichment program as of August 17, 2024, the date of the latest estimates provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Because Iran has reduced its cooperation with the Agency, the Agency is no longer able to precisely verify Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium at any one time."

https://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/articles-reports/irans-nuclear-timetable-weapon-potential

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An Unprecedented Look at #Stuxnet, the World's First #DigitalWeapon

In an excerpt from her new book, "Countdown to Zero Day," WIRED's Kim Zetter describes the dark path the world's first digital weapon took to reach its target in #Iran.

Kim Zetter
Nov 3, 2014 6:30 AM

"In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency [#IAEA] visiting the #Natanz #uranium enrichment plant in Iran noticed that centrifuges used to enrich uranium gas were failing at an unprecedented rate. The cause was a complete mystery—apparently as much to the Iranian technicians replacing the centrifuges as to the inspectors observing them.

"Five months later a seemingly unrelated event occurred. A computer security firm in Belarus was called in to troubleshoot a series of computers in Iran that were crashing and rebooting repeatedly. Again, the cause of the problem was a mystery. That is, until the researchers found a handful of malicious files on one of the systems and discovered the world's first digital weapon.

"Stuxnet, as it came to be known, was unlike any other virus or worm that came before. Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it escaped the digital realm to wreak physical destruction on equipment the computers controlled."

https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/

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#IDF #Israel #Cyberattack
#CyberWarfare

#US, #Israel Used Dutch Spy to Launch #Stuxnet #Malware Against #Iran

Report says US and Israel spent $1 billion to develop the infamous #StuxnetVirus, built to sabotage Iran's nuclear program in 2008.

bu Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark Reading
January 8, 2024

"After a two-year investigation into the details surrounding the Stuxnet virus, unleashed in 2008 against the Iranian nuclear program, journalists with Dutch newspaper Volkskrant have released a report saying the malware cost $1 billion to develop.

"Besides the enormous price tag, the outlet said a Dutch spy was used to release the Stuxnet virus into the Iranian #nuclear infrastructure. The Dutch government told Volkskrant that the government understood the then-36-year-old #ErikVanSabben was working to sabotage the Iranian nuclear project, however there was no knowledge of a cyber weapon of Stuxnet's consequence being used as part of the proceedings.

"The report detailed that Van Stabben, working as an Iranian engineer, accessed an underground nuclear facility in the city of #Natanz and installed the Stuxnet virus, ultimately damaging nuclear centrifuges and setting back the effort by 'several years,' it said. The malware was most likely hidden in a water pump he installed, the report concluded.

"Van Stabben died just two weeks later in a motorcycle accident in Dubai, the report added. It remains unclear whether he was aware of his role in deploying Stuxnet. No foul play was suspected in Van Stabben's death."

Read more:
https://www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-security/us-israel-dutch-spy-stuxnet-malware-against-iran

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