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Fake soccer websites used to mislead Iran during cyber-attack on its nuclear program

Fake soccer websites used to mislead Iran during cyber-attack on its nuclear program

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Dec 02, 2011
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(Source: KrebsOnSecurity.com)

By James M. Dorsey

Two fake soccer websites helped the creators of the Stuxnet computer virus that last year attacked computers used in Iran’s nuclear program mislead authorities as they launched their assault as part of a covert campaign involving assassinations of nuclear scientists and mysterious blasts at Iranian nuclear …

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