Iranian infrastructure and strategic networks have come under
attack in the last few days by a computer virus similar to Stuxnet but “more
violent, more advanced and more sophisticated,” and Israeli officials are
refusing to discuss what role, if any, they may have had in the operation, an Israeli
TV report said Wednesday.
The report came hours
after Israel said its Mossad intelligence agency had thwarted an Iranian murder
plot in Denmark, and two days after Iran acknowledged that President Hassan
Rouhani’s mobile phone had been bugged. It also follows a string of Israeli
intelligence coups against Iran, including the extraction from Tehran in
January by the Mossad of the contents of a vast archive documenting
Iran’s nuclear weapons program, and the detailing by Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN in
September of other alleged Iranian nuclear and missile assets inside Iran, in
Syria and in Lebanon.
“Remember Stuxnet, the
virus that penetrated the computers of the Iranian nuclear industry?” the
report on Israel’s Hadashot news asked. Iran “has admitted in the past few days
that it is again facing a similar attack, from a more violent, more advanced
and more sophisticated virus than before, that has hit infrastructure and
strategic networks.”
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