Stuxnet

Illustrative image of a hacker and online fraud (scyther5; iStock by Getty Images)

June 1, 2019, 11:01 am

Hackers take down Iranian social security website

Semi-official news agency reports site down for part of Thursday; Israel, US blamed for past breaches of governmental systems

By AP

Illustrative image of conceptual cyber attack code. (DaLiu/iStock by Getty images)

May 17, 2019, 6:52 am

Iran claims to develop defense against Stuxnet-like attacks

Communications minister says Iranian scientists have created a firewall to block computer viruses from harming infrastructure, like bug that damaged nuclear centrifuges

By TOI staff

File: An Iranian worker at the Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan, 410 kilometers south of Tehran, January 2014. (AP /Vahid Salemi)

November 5, 2018, 2:34 pm

Iran claims to thwart Stuxnet-style Israeli cyberattack

Information minister says a regime with ‘a record of using cyber weapons’ attempted to damage communication infrastructure but ‘returned empty-handed’

By TOI staff and AFP

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a joint press conference with his Turkish and Azeri counterparts (unseen) on October 30, 2018, in Istanbul. (Ozan Kose/AFP)

November 1, 2018, 12:05 am

Iran accuses Mossad of running ‘false flag’ ops to frame Tehran

Claim by foreign minister comes after Israeli officials reveal spy agency’s role in exposing alleged assassination plot on Iranian dissidents in Denmark

By TOI staff and AFP

In this Feb. 3, 2007 file photo, an Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

October 31, 2018, 9:59 pm

TV report: Israel silent as Iran hit by computer virus more violent than Stuxnet

Tehran strategic networks attacked, Hadashot TV says, hours after Israel revealed it tipped off Denmark about Iran murder plot, and days after Rouhani’s phone was found bugged

By TOI staff

An F-16I fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force's 253rd Squadron prepares to take off during an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)

March 21, 2018, 5:15 pm

From Osirak to Iran scientists: Other nuclear-related attacks linked to Israel

Aside from destruction of Syrian and Iraqi reactors, covert assassinations and computer viruses have also been attributed to the Jewish state

By AFP

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab (Courtesy)

January 21, 2018, 1:34 pm

Netanyahu turns down meeting with Russian cybersecurity head linked to US hack

Citing schedule restraints, Prime Minister’s Office says premier ‘must decline’ Eugene Kaspersky’s request for sit-down at Davos World Economic Forum this week

By Raoul Wootliff

A view of the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab, Russia's leading antivirus software development company, in Moscow on October 25, 2017. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

October 25, 2017, 11:42 pm

Outed by Israel, Kaspersky confirms it took classified US information

Russian firm acknowledges its software picked up source code but says it was destroyed and never shown to anyone

By JTA

An employee of Kaspersky Lab works on computers at the company's headquarters in Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2017. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

October 11, 2017, 8:44 am

Israel said behind discovery of Russian cybersecurity hack into US intel

Kaspersky Lab software ordered wiped from government computers after Israeli agents hacked into system and found Kremlin’s footprints

By TOI staff

Costin Raiu, Director, Global Research & Analysis Team at Kaspersky Lab during a visit to Jerusalem, June 14, 2017. (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

June 26, 2017, 3:26 pm

Virtual detectives prowl the web’s ‘dark forest’ for criminal tracks

By studying past cyber-attacks you learn how to fend off new ones, Kaspersky Lab’s chief researcher says

By Shoshanna Solomon

December 15, 2016, 4:53 pm

Mutually assured cyber destruction?

Op-ed: Experts say first the US, then some of the West’s enemies, have developed the capability to shut down entire countries at the flip of a switch

By David Horovitz

Retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright arrives at the US District Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

October 18, 2016, 3:01 am

US general guilty in Stuxnet false statements probe

Former vice chair of Joint Chiefs James Cartwright, 67, tried to hide involvement in 2012 news reports on alleged US-Israeli cyber attack on Iranian nuke program

By SAM HANANEL and Eric Tucker

An Iranian security guard stands at the Maroun petrochemical plant at the Imam Khomeini port, southwestern Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

September 22, 2016, 7:08 pm

Blazes at Iran petrochemical plants raise suspicions of cyberattack

Tehran insists recent fires at several oil complexes unrelated to hacking, but officials last month acknowledged malware infection

By Jon Gambrell

August 15, 2016, 2:01 pm

Hard drive noises could betray sensitive data, says BGU team

Malware to manipulate the clicks and clacks of disk drives is the latest example of how hackers could steal information from a computer, even one unconnected to the internet

By Dan Schwartz

Syrian opposition activists Bahr Abdul Razzak and his wife Noura Al-Ameer in Istanbul, August 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

August 2, 2016, 8:35 pm

Experts see Iranian role in bid to hack Syrian dissident

Evidence of cyber espionage against opposition activists raises possibility that Tehran has gone beyond tipping scale in Assad’s favor

By Raphael Satter