US officials are being reported in the media as claiming that they launched a secret cyberattack
against Iran in June. The attack destroyed a critical database, and at
least temporarily prevented Iran from covertly targeting oil tankers.
The attack took place on June 20, and officials say that Iran has still
not been able to get a lot of the systems, including military networks,
back online for paramilitary forces that the US believes were targeting
tankers.
This cyberattack came amid a flurry of speculation about escalation
between the US and Iran in the Persian Gulf. Interestingly, the US
continued to play up the “threat” of Iran attacking commercial ships
even though they believed the cyber attack had effectively precluded
that.
This cyberattack apparently happened effectively concurrently with Trump’s ordered military attack against Iran, which he called back at the last minute. This was followed with weeks of talking about military strikes against Iran, and claims of Iranian threats.
Yeah we did a hell of a job.. Otherwise Iran might have seized a British tanker or something.
Bring a new weapon into warfare and you can’t complain if that weapon is used against you, but the US will bitch endlessly if a cyberattack is launched against it. Its own infrastructure is crumbling so it should be careful. In just a day its whole electricity grid can be brought down and kept off-line for weeks on end.
The US doesn’t have “an electricity grid.” It has a number of them, with different operators and different systems. It would take a large number of different simultaneous attacks to bring them down.
Of course that is based on the assumption that Iran is indeed intent on “targeting” tankers. Just another of our accusations that are now considered fact by our stenographers for the war party(Justin’s description)that we call the media.
Stenographers is too mild a description for this crowd.
This is fake news. US attempted to cyberattack Iran radars in the Strait of Hormuz but failed. That is the reason Trump called off the intended military attack on the day Iran shut down the US drone…
I dismiss this as complete horse hockey. Just another PR move to ratchet up the push for war.
What it does show is that the US is definitely trying to get a war started. But we’re supposed to believe that all Trump has to do is “just say no.” Good luck with that.