The US reportedly used a cyberattack to bring down an Iranian database used to target ships passing through the Persian Gulf. As Fox News reports:
Iran is still feeling the pain after U.S. cyber military forces brought down a database used by its Revolutionary Guard Corps to target ships in the Persian Gulf, hours after the Islamic Republic shot down an American drone, officials say.
The retaliatory cyberattack on June 20 focused on a system that Iran uses to determine which oil tankers and marine traffic it should go after, a senior U.S. official told the New York Times. As of Thursday, Iran has yet to recover all of the data lost in the attack and is trying to restore military communication networks linked to the database, the newspaper added.
President Trump reportedly signed off on the U.S. Cyber Command’s strike though the government has not publicly acknowledged it happened, according to the Washington Post.
“As a matter of policy and for operational security, we do not discuss cyberspace operations, intelligence, or planning,” Elissa Smith, a Pentagon spokeswoman, told the paper in a statement.
Well obviously representing another massive win for the Trump administration in its fight against terror, the question remains is this just the begining of something larger?
its time to kill all them muslims hating pieces of shit.
I call BS on this.
If true, then redirect all missile launches at 1 time to Tehran.
This is an old school puzzle. I like it.
Iran only failed to pay their “software as service” premiums and can’t run
NTFS any longer. Accounts Deactivated.
Now Gill Bates gets a tax write-off.
Newer, better drones are made.
we probably blew up that rocket too. if not us isreal did.
That one and the two before it. Iran’s IRGC are in a state of catatonic despair and both their rockets and cyberware used to target drones against western oil shipping in the Persian Gulf have been disabled.
Maybe they had better realize this ain’t Muslim obama’s USA anymore. They have been quiet as a mouse recently. It’s NO ACCIDENT!
I think that it could have happened, but I can’t believe the the United States is admitting to it, because it should be highly classified.
This story is a lie, as to this type of information would be highly classified and not available to this type of outlet.
The information on how the attack was done is the classified part. THAT it was done is not subject to classification.
I know you only believe cyber attacks performed against the US are legit. How is it possible, you are saying, that the nation which invented cyber could possibly figure out how to use it against another nation?
I’m being facetious to cite your deranged anti-Trump, anti-US bias.
Benjamin . . . . you may be right but my take is that it is true and on news releases so America will know that:
(1) we have a President (not obamba),
(2) the USA is tired of “bargaining” with bloodthirsty terrorists and are now taking a proactive stance with them.
There’s little doubt that we have the technology to blow up any of their medium and long range missiles and now its “proving time”.