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Eugene

(61,595 posts)
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 08:12 PM Dec 2014

Iran hackers targeted airlines, energy firms: report

Source: Reuters

Iran hackers targeted airlines, energy firms: report

BY JIM FINKLE
BOSTON Tue Dec 2, 2014 12:01pm EST

(Reuters) - Iranian hackers have infiltrated some of the world's top energy, transport and infrastructure companies over the past two years in a campaign that could allow them to eventually cause physical damage, according to U.S. cyber security firm Cylance.

Aerospace firms, airports and airlines, universities, energy firms, hospitals, and telecommunications operators based in the United States, Israel, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, France, England have been hit by the campaign, the research firm said, without naming individual companies.

A person familiar with the research said U.S. energy firm Calpine Corp, state-controlled oil companies Saudi Aramco and Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), as well as flag carriers Qatar Airlines and Korean Air were among the specific targets.

The 87-page report comes as governments scramble to better understand Iran's cyber capabilities, which researchers say have grown rapidly as Tehran seeks to retaliate for Western cyber attacks on its nuclear program.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/02/us-cybersecurity-iran-idUSKCN0JG18I20141202
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Iran hackers targeted airlines, energy firms: report (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2014 OP
Pot, meet Kettle Jake Stern Dec 2014 #1
Seems fair enough. We deployed StuxNet on them, they retaliated. Warren Stupidity Dec 2014 #2

Jake Stern

(3,145 posts)
1. Pot, meet Kettle
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 10:03 PM
Dec 2014

We've spent the better part of the last 30 + years fucking with Iran and now we're pissing our pants because they're quite possibly fucking us right back?

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
2. Seems fair enough. We deployed StuxNet on them, they retaliated.
Tue Dec 2, 2014, 10:15 PM
Dec 2014

If you are going to be the world's bully, every now and then a little guy is going to trip you up.

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