Former Israeli spy chief: Iran’s energy sector, 'next 9/11 in cyber'
BINTANGNEWS.com – Former
chief of an Israeli spy service unit has said that the first cyber target in
any future conflict with Iran should be its energy infrastructure.
"We
should not attack water, food, healthcare on ethical grounds, and should not
attack banks because of the potential butterfly effect," he said.
"The next 9/11 in cyber will be energy sector."
Israel
is widely believed to be behind a cyber attack on the Iranian nuclear energy
program in 2011.
The
Washington Post reported in June 2012 that US spy services and Israel’s
military had worked together to launch the Stuxnet computer virus against a
uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, Iran. It was the first publicly known
example of a virus being used to attack industrial machinery.
Since
Stuxnet’s discovery in 2010, security researchers have uncovered a handful of
other sophisticated pieces of computer code they believe were developed by the
US and Israel in tandem to engage in espionage and warfare.
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly told Russian President Vladimir
Putin and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over the weekend that Israel would
strike against Iranian efforts to entrench itself militarily throughout Syria,
and not only along the Syrian border with the occupied Palestinian territories.
"First
of all, Iran needs to withdraw from all of Syria,” he told the weekly cabinet
meeting.
"Second,
we will take action – and are already taking action – against efforts to
establish a military presence by Iran and its proxies in Syria, both close to
the border and deep inside Syria. We will act against these efforts anywhere in
Syria.”
Diplomatic
officials said that Netanyahu raises the issue of Iranian activity in Syria in
all his conversations with foreign leaders.***
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