Monday, June 24, 2019

U.S. military launched a cyber attack against Iran's missile launcher computers

The story is in the title. Everything else at AP is filler.

* It was a contingency plan drawn up previously
* Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps computer system was targeted
* IRGC was designated a foreign terrorist group earlier.
* U.S. Cyber Command did it.
* U.S. is concentrating on doing more of this sort of thing
* Iran disconnected from the internet following Stuxnet virus
* Tensions increased since Trump withdrew from 2015 nuclear deal and began applying maximum pressure.
* Tensions spiked when Iran shot down a U.S. drone
* Iranian hackers targeted U.S. government agencies, finance, oil and gas by waves of spear-phishing emails.
* Then this bit of irrelevance from John Hulquist, director of intelligence at FireEye:
Both sides are desperate to know what the other side is thinking. You can absolutely expect the regime to be leveraging every tool they have available to reduce the uncertainty about what’s going to happen next, about what the U.S.’s next move will be.
Desperate. Duh.

The article gets weaker as it goes.

1 comment:

edutcher said...

l that help we give Israel is paying off.