The new documentary about Stuxnet, "Zero Days", says the U.S. and Israel had a
far larger cyber operation against Iran called Nitro Zeus that has
compromised the country's infrastructure and could be used as a weapon
in any future war.
Quoting unnamed sources from inside the NSA and CIA,
the movie says the Nitro Zeus program has infiltrated the systems controlling communications, power grids, transportation and financial systems, and is still ready to "disrupt, degrade and destroy" that infrastructure if a war should break out with Iran...
For the more technically inclined, the film contains some riveting interviews with researchers at Symantec who devoted their lives to unraveling the code line by line to figure out what it did, how it did it, who created it and what the target was.
It was also a bit chilling in that after they figured out that governments were behind the worm they worried that the researchers themselves might be targeted to keep them silent.
One Friday night, says Symantec researcher Eric Chien, he said to his research partner Liam O Murchu, "I'm not suicidal.
If I should show up dead on Monday, it wasn't me."
In the film former NSA and CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden says "This stuff is hideously over classified."
The plan, which reportedly cost tens of millions of dollars and would have knocked out critical parts of Iran's infrastructure, has since been shelved...
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