Iranian Hacker Claims Revenge for Stuxnet
source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8411252/Iranian-hacker-claims-revenge-for-Stuxnet...
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An Iranian hacker has claimed responsibility for an attack on a computer security firm that exposed millions of internet users to potential surveillance.
The hacker said his attack was mounted in revenge for the Stuxnet virus attack on his country's nuclear programme.
The boast follows a major security breach at Comodo Group, a “certification authority” which acts as an independent third party to ensure communications between users and websites are properly encrypted. The integrity of such encryption is a fundamental part of web security, foiling attackers who could otherwise easily monitor emails or steal online banking details.
Messages posted online on Saturday claimed that a lone 21-year-old hacker was able to hack into Comodo “very, very fast”. “Comodohacker”, as he named himself, said he used his “experience of 1,000 hackers” to defend Iran’s leadership and nuclear scientists against international and domestic opponents.
In one lengthy message, in flawed English, he boasted: “I know you are really shocked about my knowledge, my skill, my speed, my expertise and entire attack. That's okay, all of it was so easy for me.”
Comodohacker railed especially against Stuxnet, a highly sophisticated virus that last year disrupted centrifuge control systems at Iran’s uranium enrichment site at Natanz. Forensic investigations of the attack have strongly indicated it was a joint operation by US and Israeli secret intelligence services.
“When USA and Israel creates Stuxnet, nobody talks about it, nobody blamed, nothing happened at all, so when I sign certificates nothing should happen, I say that, when I sign certificates nothing should happen,” Comodohacker said.
“If you was doing a dirty business in internet inside Iran, I suggest you to quit your job, listen to sound of most of people of Iran, otherwise you'll be in a big trouble, also you can leave digital world and return to using abacus.”
Comodohacker’s messages implicitly denied any government involvement, but threatened dissidents.
“Anyone inside Iran with problems, from fake green movement to all MKO [an armed dissident group] members and two faced terrorists, should afraid of me personally,” he claimed.
“As I live, you don't have privacy in internet, you don't have security in digital world, just wait and see.”
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What a badass mofo!
The hacker said his attack was mounted in revenge for the Stuxnet virus attack on his country's nuclear programme.
The boast follows a major security breach at Comodo Group, a “certification authority” which acts as an independent third party to ensure communications between users and websites are properly encrypted. The integrity of such encryption is a fundamental part of web security, foiling attackers who could otherwise easily monitor emails or steal online banking details.
Messages posted online on Saturday claimed that a lone 21-year-old hacker was able to hack into Comodo “very, very fast”. “Comodohacker”, as he named himself, said he used his “experience of 1,000 hackers” to defend Iran’s leadership and nuclear scientists against international and domestic opponents.
In one lengthy message, in flawed English, he boasted: “I know you are really shocked about my knowledge, my skill, my speed, my expertise and entire attack. That's okay, all of it was so easy for me.”
Comodohacker railed especially against Stuxnet, a highly sophisticated virus that last year disrupted centrifuge control systems at Iran’s uranium enrichment site at Natanz. Forensic investigations of the attack have strongly indicated it was a joint operation by US and Israeli secret intelligence services.
“When USA and Israel creates Stuxnet, nobody talks about it, nobody blamed, nothing happened at all, so when I sign certificates nothing should happen, I say that, when I sign certificates nothing should happen,” Comodohacker said.
“If you was doing a dirty business in internet inside Iran, I suggest you to quit your job, listen to sound of most of people of Iran, otherwise you'll be in a big trouble, also you can leave digital world and return to using abacus.”
Comodohacker’s messages implicitly denied any government involvement, but threatened dissidents.
“Anyone inside Iran with problems, from fake green movement to all MKO [an armed dissident group] members and two faced terrorists, should afraid of me personally,” he claimed.
“As I live, you don't have privacy in internet, you don't have security in digital world, just wait and see.”
more at link...
What a badass mofo!
