Cyberweapons

US Department of Defense Tactical Electromagnetic Cyber Warfare: Plant Malware Through the Air

January 18, 2013

Source: Defense News It was right around that time that scientists began to turn their attention to another project: trying to access these protected networks remotely, through the air, by reading activity via electromagnetic field distortions and inserting code via radio frequencies. Accessing these networks — networks that don’t have wireless routers and aren’t connected [...]

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It’s global cyber war out there

January 3, 2013

Source: AFR Sitting in an office in the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s Soviet-style building, which mirrors the Orwellian bunker one might imagine, Australia’s most experienced spy master, David Irvine, has a lot on his mind as he gazes over Lake Burley Griffin. Irvine, the director-general of ASIO, knows Australian business and the government are engaged [...]

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Israel invests millions in drive for elite ‘cyber warriors’: Unit 8200

November 3, 2012

Source: Telegraph The Jewish state is facing a dire shortage of “cyber-combat troops” and is scouring the Jewish Diaspora for exceptional, teenage computer minds to recruit to its cyber unit Intelligence Corps Unit 8200, a leading Israeli newspaper reported on Thursday. “It has become clear that the demand for soldiers in this field is growing, [...]

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Credible threat

October 24, 2012

Source: China Economic Review Imagine an attack on the US that poisoned water supplies, derailed trains and caused power outages across large swathes of the country. Such an offensive would likely require a large strike force networked across the US, a difficult feat given vigilant post-9/11 efforts to combat terrorism. Unless, of course, the US [...]

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Cyber war targets Middle East oil and gas companies

October 21, 2012

Source: Al Arabiya/AFP Middle Eastern oil and gas companies have been targeted in massive attacks on their computer networks in an increasingly open cyber war where a new virus was discovered just this past week. The United States and Israel, believed to behind the first cyber sabotage campaign that targeted Iran’s nuclear program, are now [...]

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United States linked to computer viruses used for espionage operations and cyber warfare.

September 17, 2012

Source: Reuters Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the United States may have developed three previously unknown computer viruses for use in espionage operations or cyber warfare. The findings are likely to bolster a growing view that the U.S. government is using cyber technology more widely than previously believed to further its interests in the [...]

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Pentagon to bolster networks and cyberattack capabilities with ‘Plan X

August 22, 2012

Editors Notes: Additional information into the digital battlefield: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: PLAN X Source: Next Gov The Pentagon is seeking technology to coordinate and bolster cyberattack capabilities through a funding experiment called “Plan X,” contract documents indicate. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency envisions new tools that will lay the foundation for launching [...]

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Talk of Military Attack May Be Cover for Cyber War on Iran

August 15, 2012

Source: Arutz Sheva Journalists are scratching their heads to figure out why Israeli and American leaders are leading a daily chatter of a military attack on Iran, but the flow of words may be a ruse to give Iran a double jolt as its deep fear that a cyber war can knock out its nuclear [...]

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Cyber surveillance virus Gauss found in region

August 9, 2012

Dubai: A new cyber surveillance virus, named Gauss, has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, according to Kaspersky Labs. “The virus is capable of attacking critical infrastructure and has close relations with Flame, the computer worm used to attack Iran,” Vitaly Kamluk, Chief Malware [...]

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The war being waged on the web

July 18, 2012

Source: Telegraph In the past five years, cyber and telecommunications defence has left its niche market to become one of the fastest growing industries in the world. In 2011, governments, industry and ordinary computer users spent roughly £65 billion shoring up their computer networks, a figure that is predicted to double within five years. In [...]

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‘Madi’ Cyber Espionage Campaign in Middle East Uncovered

July 17, 2012

Source IB Times The active cyber-espionage campaign is targetting very specific victims including employees of critical infrastructure companies, financial services and government embassies, which are mainly located in Middle Eastern countries. So far it is unclear whether or not this is a state-sponsored campaign like Stuxnet and Flame but the security company which first identified [...]

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The secret labs where America’s most futuristic weapons are built

June 25, 2012

Source: The Week Stuxnet and Flame, two of the key covert computer viruses used in OLYMPIC GAMES, were likely developed at Ft. Meade, Md. At NSA headquarters, computer scientists successfully weaponized C++ and established the battlefield of the future. To test the cyber weapon, perfect replicas of Iran’s centrifuges were built at the Negev Nuclear [...]

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The ‘cyber war’ era began long ago

June 24, 2012

Source: Malta Independent US military strategist John Boyd states: “War comprises acts of physical, biological, psychological, social, cultural and other destruction at all levels, for example, intrapsychic, interpersonal, intergroup, interorganisational, and international.” Cyber warfare is combat in cyberspace and includes computers, the Internet and the “sphere of human thought” (Noosphere, Social Media). Cyber operations can [...]

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Drones, computers new weapons of US shadow wars

June 16, 2012

Source: AP After a decade of costly conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, the American way of war is evolving toward less brawn, more guile. Drone aircraft spy on and attack terrorists with no pilot in harm’s way. Small teams of special operations troops quietly train and advise foreign forces. Viruses sent from computers to [...]

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Israel’s high-tech whiz kids, Unit 8200, and W32.Flame

June 9, 2012

Source: UPI Israel’s highly secretive Unit 8200 of Military Intelligence is increasingly seen to have played a leading role with the United States in developing a powerful new cyberweapon known as W32.Flame that attacked Iran’s oil industry in April. Veterans of the unit, the equivalent of the U.S. National Security Agency and Britain’s Government Communications [...]

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Mossad Wants Credit for Stuxnet

June 8, 2012

Source: The Atlantic Israel’s officials have a message for anyone praising the CIA for its sophisticated cyber attack on Iran: It was our baby. The Stuxnet computer worm, described by David Sanger in The New York Times last week as an invention by the Bush administration, was actually developed by Mossad, according to Israeli officials speaking with Haaretz journalist [...]

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IDF admits to using cyber space to attack enemies

June 3, 2012

The IDF uses cyber space to gather intelligence, attack enemies and conduct various military operations, the military revealed on Sunday in a posting on its official website. The rare announcement was the first time the IDF officially admitted it engages in cyberwarfare for offensive purposes. It also came a week after a new virus was [...]

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It Looks Like The Devastating New Virus Ripping Through Iran Was A Joint US-Israel Attack

May 31, 2012

Security researchers have linked the Flame virus to Israel while U.S. computer security experts say that it bears the hallmarks of the National Security Agency (NSA), according to reports from Nicole Perlroth of The New York Times and Robert Windrem of NBC News. Flame is a massive program that leaves a backdoor (i.e. Trojan) on [...]

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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: PLAN X

May 30, 2012

The previously unreported effort, which its authors have dubbed Plan X, marks a new phase in the nation’s fledgling military operations in cyberspace, which have focused more on protecting the Defense Departments’s own computer systems than on disrupting or destroying those of enemies. [...] A digital battlefield The shift in focus is significant, said officials [...]

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Flame: The Skype-Sniffing, Bluetooth-Enabled Super Spy Tool Is A Harbinger

May 30, 2012

The news from cybersecurity researchers this Memorial Day sounded like a plot device from a science fiction movie. A hyper-secret surveillance program laid dormant on computers around the world for years, secretly turning on microphones, taking screenshots, copying files, recording keystrokes, fiddling with Bluetooth, and sending all the information off to unknown parties. Following an [...]

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Iran cuts off Internet access to oil refineries following malware attack

April 23, 2012

Iran’s Ministry of Oil has cut off Internet accessto six oil refineries following an apparent cyber attack targeting their networks, it was widely reported on Monday. Representatives of the ministry said it has formed a “crisis committee,” and told BBC Persian that the attacks are still ongoing. Khark Island, which sits 16 miles off the [...]

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Israel develops new weapons for next war: Deep Corps, Drones; Backpack Radar and Cyberweapons

April 17, 2012

Source: UPI Amid a flurry of warnings that Lebanon and Hezbollah will be hammered in any new conflict, the Israeli military unveiled a new 120mm tank shell said to be able to penetrate reinforced targets, including in populated areas. “Such a capability — to accurately target terrorists hiding inside homes — is believed to be [...]

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Stuxnet worm reportedly planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick

April 12, 2012

Source: Ars Technica The Stuxnet computer worm used to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program was planted by a double agent working for Israel. The agent used a booby-trapped memory stick to infect machines deep inside the Natanz nuclear facility, according to a report published on Wednesday. Once the memory stick was infected, Stuxnet was able to [...]

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Pentagon to fast-track cyberweapons acquisition

April 9, 2012

Source: Washington Post The Pentagon is planning to dramatically speed up the development of new cyberweapons, giving it the ability in some cases to field weapons against specific targets in a matter of days, according to a new Pentagon report to Congress. The rapid acquisition process is designed to respond to “urgent, mission-critical” needs when [...]

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U.S. Navy Focus Shifts To Asia-Pacific

April 6, 2012

Source: Aviation Week The U.S. Navy’s expanding mission in Asia and the Pacific Ocean is a striking example of early planning turned on its head by changing threats. That upset is now being righted by innovations on the fly. New technologies—including aircraft carriers and stealthy strike aircraft—will be transferred to the Asia-Pacific theater. But [...]

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CYBERCOM Arming U.S. Combatant Commands

March 22, 2012

Once entirely controlled by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), offensive cyber weapons are making their way into the hands of the U.S. military’s geographic combatant commanders. The effort was alluded to by the NSA and the U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) chief, Army Gen. Keith Alexander, as part of congressional testimony March 20, and confirmed [...]

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Meet The Hackers Who Sell Spies The Tools To Crack Your PC (And Get Paid Six-Figure Fees)

March 22, 2012

A team of hackers from French security firm Vupen were playing by different rules. They declined to enter Google’s contest and instead dismantled Chrome’s security to win an HP-sponsored hackathon at the same conference. And while Google paid a $60,000 award to each of the two hackers who won its event on the condition that [...]

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US to fast-track cyber weapons

March 19, 2012

The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not connected to the Internet, according to current and former U.S. officials. The possibility of a confrontation with Iran or Syria has highlighted for American military planners the value of cyberweapons that [...]

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