Image via CrunchBaseThe news has been cited from an Iranian military official who has been actively looking into the mystifying computer worm which was aimed at the Iranian nuclear facilities along with the relevant industrial sites too. This information was revealed on Saturday, and it was also alleged that this malware might have ended up harming on a very large-scale resulting many lives lost.
It was explained that the initial discovery of the worm was observed in September, which was making its way to the powerful Iranian computer system, this worm was called Stuxnet. This worm was apparently designed specifically to steal the centrifuges, which are used in nuclear fuel production, rotating on a very uncontrollable frequency. The military related the origins of the suspicious worn to Israel and the U.S., as they were also the main suspects to be interested in a secret effort of destroying the nuclear capacity which the West fears, as to be aimed for weaponry production.
Furthermore, despite being caught, Iran confesses that the code did however infect laptops of there several employees, who were designated on the first nuclear power plant. Perhaps this was the reason that the launch of this plant was repeatedly delayed. In fact, though not officially said, it is largely whispered be the cause of the crippling of Iran's uranium enrichment program last year.
While speaking on Saturday, Gholam Reza Jalali, a figurehead for the Iranian military, openly alleged that according to the Iranian experts, they tracked U.S. and Israel to be behind the Stuxnet attack. He also mentioned that if it had been successful in taking control of the systems in the industrial sites, like power plants, as intended, disastrous accidents and immense loss of human life would have been at hand. He then bragged that this much disaster was turned aside by the Iranian experts who encountered this worm, though he did not provide any evidence or elaborative detail on the matter.
According to the IRNA, a local news channel, Jalali has announced that "Enemies have attacked industrial infrastructure and undermined industrial production through cyber attacks. This was a hostile action against our country." Moreover, he went on saying that "If it had not been confronted on time, much material damage and human loss could have been inflicted."
Jalali also reportedly put some extent of blame on Siemens, the German engineering conglomerate, of which equipment and software was used in the Bushehr nuclear power plant. As such technical issues end up stopping the progression of the plans. The words of Jalali were quoted by IRNA that "Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemies with the codes of the SCADA software and paved the way for a cyber attack against us."
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