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May 25, 2013 4:00 PM EST 0 Comments
By Fahmida Y. Rashid
Cyber-attackers backed by the Iranian government have breached and infiltrated several US-based energy companies in an ongoing campaign, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Iranian cyber-attackers launched a series of infiltration and surveillance missions against energy companies in the United States, and successfully accessed control-system software they could have used to manipulate oil or gas pipelines, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The attackers have collected information on the control systems and "acquired the means" to disrupt or destroy these systems in the future, current and former officials said, according to the report.
They got "far enough to worry people," a former official told the Journal.
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