cyberwar

With eyes on Iran, Israel has been planning for the inevitable for the last decade – a cyber onslaught on its sworn enemy Iran.

Last year an Israeli spy was executed in Iran for importing “tainted” communications equipment for one of Iran’s secret military projects. This equipment was likely equipped with malware created by Israeli cyberspies to allow them to take control of the hardware should they need to.

Iranian media quoted a security official as saying that Ashtari’s actions “led to the defeat of the project with irreversible damage.” Israel declined all comment on the case. >via Reuters

In 2007 Israel instituted a air based bombing raid on a suspected atomic reactor in Syria. The attack was preceeded by a cyber attack that rendered Syrian’s ground radar and anti-aircraft systems useless.

According to the book “State Of War” by NYTimes reported James Risen – the CIA and the Israeli Mossad had plans to use electromagnetic-pulse devices to fry power lines heading to nuclear power facilities in Iran.

Via a recent Reuters report…

Asked to speculate about how Israel might target Iran, Borg said malware — a commonly used abbreviation for “malicious software” — could be inserted to corrupt, commandeer or crash the controls of sensitive sites like uranium enrichment plants.

Such attacks could be immediate, he said. Or they might be latent, with the malware loitering unseen and awaiting an external trigger, or pre-set to strike automatically when the infected facility reaches a more critical level of activity.

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