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Map of Equation Group's victims (Photo credit: Courtesy)
February 22, 2015, 6:20 pm
Kaspersky Lab: Israel spared two major cyberattacks
Software security firm says the Equation Group hacking operation is by far the most sophisticated malware it has uncovered, and the most dangerous; also discovers mega cyber robbery plot
By David Shamah
Map of the NetTraveler malware's reach (photo credit: Courtesy)
June 4, 2013, 11:03 pm
Cyber espionage bug attacking Middle East, but Israel untouched — so far
NetTraveler virus found in computers in diplomatic missions of over 40 countries, including Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Qatar, and Iran
By David Shamah
Map of countries affected by the Red October malware. (Screenshot Courtesy Kaspersky Lab)
June 3, 2013, 2:41 pm
Top security exec: Beware the ‘sons of Stuxnet’
The virus that compromised Iran’s nuclear infrastructure is a model of things to come, and Israel is not immune
By David Shamah
Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak, 150 miles southwest of Tehran (photo credit: AP/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan)
December 25, 2012, 3:21 pm
Iran media report new cyber-attack by Stuxnet worm
Computer experts were able to stop the virus, local civil defense chief says
August 9, 2012, 5:55 pm
New cyber virus hits Middle Eastern computers
Kaspersky Lab experts believe Gauss virus was designed by the same people who developed Flame, Duqu, and Stuxnet
By Ilan Ben Zion
A computer, illustrative (CC BY-SA HackNY, Flickr)
From the WebJuly 17, 2012, 6:23 pm
New virus hits computers in Iran, Israel
Mahdi spyware, named after Islamic messiah, is latest virus to infect Middle East, Wired reports
Illustrative. An Israeli soldier in front of computer monitors. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 3, 2012, 8:25 pm
Virus penetrates Defense Ministry computer network
Officials investigating cyber attack, Channel 2 TV report says
By Kayla J Adams
Illustrative photo of an Internet cafe (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)
From the WebJune 10, 2012, 2:13 am
Flame computer virus ‘commits suicide’
BBC: Creators of superbug send code disabling malware from some computers
Uri Blau (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
May 31, 2012, 1:25 pm
Fighting Flame with fire
Iran threatens to set Israel alight, and a journalist will stand trial for holding secret documents
By Joshua Davidovich
Map of Flame's target countries (Photo credit: courtesy Kaspersky)
May 30, 2012, 5:56 pm
Iran admits that Flame virus hit its oil industry
Head of Iranian military unit claims virus was found, isolated and defeated, and lost information retrieved
The opening pages of a 1912 copy of S.Y. Agnon's first novella, 'And the Crooked Shall Be Made Straight.' (photo credit: Courtesy HUC/JTA)
May 29, 2012, 2:02 pm
A Flame and burning questions
The Middle Eastern computer bug is all over today’s papers, and army officers wants to know if any reserve soldiers still know how to shoot
By Joshua Davidovich
A Palestinian man surfs the Internet in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, in 2011. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 28, 2012, 7:34 pm
‘Most sophisticated cyber virus ever’ hits West Bank computers
Malicious espionage worm, named Flame, said to have 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, found across Middle East
By Michal Shmulovich
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