An ex colleague of mine that works/worked under Unna in Israel just said that an Iranian virus tried to mix dangerous chlorine into the main water source for the entire population of Israel. Target was Eshkol water filtration plant in northern Israel. Attack took place..
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..last month and team was briefed only today, May 28.
Last month Unna paced in his office for an hour before getting a call confirming that Iranian actors placed the worm in the facility’s computers inconspicuously and it was detected in the neck of time before it prodded..
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..the systems at the facility to divert disastrous amounts of chlorine (in addition to two other unnamed harmful chemicals) into the main that feeds 7 million people in Israel.
Unna also tasked a team to investigate how much of the worm is based on Stuxnet; An Israeli..
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..cyber worm that found its way autonomously to at least 984 of the total 4920 centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz Nuclear facility back in 2009 and shut them down, delaying Iran’s ominous program for at least 6 months. Apparently, Iran’s cyber command repurposed Stuxnet to..
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..serve their own ends. Stuxnet still remains dormant in many Iranian systems today with its future damage potential unknown.
I’m not in intel anymore so all the chatter I pick up is just a “Has Been” gossip from former coworkers, so take this thread with a grain of salt.
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