Names | Operation Olympic Games (self given) GOSSIPGIRL (?) | |
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Sponsor | State-sponsored, Equation Group (NSA), CIA and Unit 8200 | |
Motivation | Information theft and espionage, Sabotage and destruction | |
First seen | 2007 | |
Description | (The New York Times) From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons, according to participants in the program. Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet. | |
Observed | Sectors: Energy. Countries: Iran. | |
Tools used | Stuxnet. | |
Information | <https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html> <https://news.yahoo.com/revealed-how-a-secret-dutch-mole-aided-the-us-israeli-stuxnet-cyber-attack-on-iran-160026018.html> |
Last change to this card: 16 June 2020
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