Cyber warfare: Iran suffering from Stuxnet worm

Posted on Wednesday, September 29 2010 @ 16:27 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Debka claims Iran has been hit really hard by the Stuxnet worm, the site heard efforts to defeat the worm only made it more aggressive, and adds that Iran has appealed to a number of security experts in West and East Europe.
Tehran this week secretly appealed to a number of computer security experts in West and East Europe with offers of handsome fees for consultations on ways to exorcize the Stuxnet worm spreading havoc through the computer networks and administrative software of its most important industrial complexes and military command centers. debkafile's intelligence and Iranian sources report Iran turned for outside help after local computer experts failed to remove the destructive virus.

None of the foreign experts has so far come forward because Tehran refuses to provide precise information on the sensitive centers and systems under attack and give the visiting specialists the locations where they would need to work.
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