Iranian nuclear program hit by virus, plays AC/DC
It seems that someone is doing something about it, for computers used in Iran's nuclear program have fallen victim to a new virus. The virus has quite literally thunderstruck the computers, turning them on at night and forcing them to belt out AC/DC's 1990 song "Thunderstruck". The news comes from a letter sent to Finnish company F-Secure by an Iranian scientist. According to the scientist the virus has appeared at the Natanz Uranium enrichment plant in central Iran, and at another facility in Fordo, to the south-west of the capital city of Tehran.
Reportedly the virus has turned off automatic system operations, in addition to playing an excellent song repeatedly. The equipment that has been affected was supplied by the German Siemens Corporation, though has been taken out of operation due to the virus. It is worth pointing out that there is no way to verify the sender. We do know that it came from a server operated by the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, which does seem to make sense. The scientist wrote the following in the letter concerning the song.
“There was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the middle of the night with the volume maxed out. I believe it was playing ‘Thunderstruck’ by AC/DC,"
This could be the third time the Iranian nuclear program has been disrupted. In 2010, a virus known as Stuxnet set the program back at least two years. Earlier this year another virus was found, called 'Flame'. The virus was credited as being one of the most complicated ever, and was meant for spying on the web in Iran and the Middle East. From the sound of things it isn't as big an issue as the other two might have been, but being thunderstruck in the middle of some delicate research probably isn't great either.
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HaIoPosted:
M60GFX- Its funny and scary because what if the virus trigures the miscles
Can't see that happening and i hope it doesn't
it wont trust me.
CearnsyPosted:
GFX- Its funny and scary because what if the virus trigures the miscles
Can't see that happening and i hope it doesn't
CearnsyPosted:
This would annoy me so much lol and if they can hack they then what else can the hack
MazurPosted:
AcedScantyMinecartMazurScantyM60ScantyMazurAced Lol thats funny at the same time, but if there nuclear program was hit by a virus, who knows whats next
yeah if a couple hackers can get into a highly secure place like that, i wonder what a whole bunch of hackers could do o.o
They could probably set the damn rocket off itself if they wanted to!
I can highly see that happening but may be possible
Well if the hackers got pissed or something, they totally could. No one but other hackers could stop them.
doubt it, who else would know how to hack into something like that?
Yeah, there's only a few people that could do that.
Yeah I doubt even anonymous could do this.
I D oubt they would set the missle off foreal , I Dont think hackers woulld be that stupid, they can spend the rest of there life on deathrow
yeah they wouldn't be that stupid to do something like that.
MazurPosted:
ScantyMinecartMazurScantyM60ScantyMazurAced Lol thats funny at the same time, but if there nuclear program was hit by a virus, who knows whats next
yeah if a couple hackers can get into a highly secure place like that, i wonder what a whole bunch of hackers could do o.o
They could probably set the damn rocket off itself if they wanted to!
I can highly see that happening but may be possible
Well if the hackers got pissed or something, they totally could. No one but other hackers could stop them.
doubt it, who else would know how to hack into something like that?
Yeah, there's only a few people that could do that.
Yeah I doubt even anonymous could do this.
Anonymous probably could do it, they hacked into the Pentagon...
AcedPosted:
ScantyMinecartMazurScantyM60ScantyMazurAced Lol thats funny at the same time, but if there nuclear program was hit by a virus, who knows whats next
yeah if a couple hackers can get into a highly secure place like that, i wonder what a whole bunch of hackers could do o.o
They could probably set the damn rocket off itself if they wanted to!
I can highly see that happening but may be possible
Well if the hackers got pissed or something, they totally could. No one but other hackers could stop them.
doubt it, who else would know how to hack into something like that?
Yeah, there's only a few people that could do that.
Yeah I doubt even anonymous could do this.
I D oubt they would set the missle off foreal , I Dont think hackers woulld be that stupid, they can spend the rest of there life on deathrow
yayPosted:
MinecartMazurScantyM60ScantyMazurAced Lol thats funny at the same time, but if there nuclear program was hit by a virus, who knows whats next
yeah if a couple hackers can get into a highly secure place like that, i wonder what a whole bunch of hackers could do o.o
They could probably set the damn rocket off itself if they wanted to!
I can highly see that happening but may be possible
Well if the hackers got pissed or something, they totally could. No one but other hackers could stop them.
doubt it, who else would know how to hack into something like that?
Yeah, there's only a few people that could do that.
Yeah I doubt even anonymous could do this.
EmazedPosted:
MinecartMazurScantyM60ScantyMazurAced Lol thats funny at the same time, but if there nuclear program was hit by a virus, who knows whats next
yeah if a couple hackers can get into a highly secure place like that, i wonder what a whole bunch of hackers could do o.o
They could probably set the damn rocket off itself if they wanted to!
I can highly see that happening but may be possible
Well if the hackers got pissed or something, they totally could. No one but other hackers could stop them.
doubt it, who else would know how to hack into something like that?
Yeah, there's only a few people that could do that.
You would have to be a computer genius with no life to be able to do such a thing.
PeetzuhPosted:
MazurScantyM60ScantyMazurAced Lol thats funny at the same time, but if there nuclear program was hit by a virus, who knows whats next
yeah if a couple hackers can get into a highly secure place like that, i wonder what a whole bunch of hackers could do o.o
They could probably set the damn rocket off itself if they wanted to!
I can highly see that happening but may be possible
Well if the hackers got pissed or something, they totally could. No one but other hackers could stop them.
doubt it, who else would know how to hack into something like that?
Yeah, there's only a few people that could do that.
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