- Oct 23, 2012
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The Iranian government in recent months reportedly rebuffed a Stuxnet-like Internet virus targeting infrastructure in the country's southern province of Hormuzgan but new reports indicate officials weren't 100 percent successful at containing the malware.
An apparent extension of the 2010 Stuxnet virus reportedly developed jointly by the U.S. and Israel with the intention of shutting down Iran's nuclear program, the recent attack was blamed by Tehran on the same adversaries who created and released Stuxnet two years ago.
But news reports out of Iran were confusing. Some reports held that the government, which controls Iranian media, halted the attack with "the cooperation of skilled hackers," according to civil defense chief Ali Akbar Akhavan, who was quoted by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).[...]
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An apparent extension of the 2010 Stuxnet virus reportedly developed jointly by the U.S. and Israel with the intention of shutting down Iran's nuclear program, the recent attack was blamed by Tehran on the same adversaries who created and released Stuxnet two years ago.
But news reports out of Iran were confusing. Some reports held that the government, which controls Iranian media, halted the attack with "the cooperation of skilled hackers," according to civil defense chief Ali Akbar Akhavan, who was quoted by the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA).[...]
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