If we are responsible for this, I can only say, God bless America:
I am writing you to inform you that our nuclear program has once again been compromised and attacked by a new worm with exploits which have shut down our automation network at Natanz and another facility Fordo near Qom.
According to the email our cyber experts sent to our teams, they believe a hacker tool Metasploit was used. The hackers had access to our VPN. The automation network and Siemens hardware were attacked and shut down. I only know very little about these cyber issues as I am scientist not a computer expert.
There was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the middle of the night with the volume maxed out. I believe it was playing ‘Thunderstruck’ by AC/DC.
I’d like to think that somewhere in a deep NSA basement sits a computer genius staring at a monitor, cackling as he types in the code for this virus, the further he gets into it, the harder he laughs, until finally he’s finishes it and send it off.
He reaches over to his iPod, hits play and this comes on:
The whole time the intro is sounding off, the upload bar keeps filling up, until BOOM!
The Iranians start wondering what this Australian powerhouse means and where it came from.
Hat Tip: The Jawa Report
I dunno, it may have been my little kitty Crowe Thunder Cloud.
Thunderstruck is her favorite song and she always comes running into the room whenever it is being played.
I wouldn’t put it past the little rascal.
I’m pretty sure that when this song came out in about ’90 or so, an expert Baptist minister played the record backward (something that is taught to the level of a fine art in Baptist seminaries) and the hidden message was this : We are coming after your computers and your entire &^%#$#@&%$ nuke program! We have unleashed the Great Satan on you! Allah is not pleased and will deny you your 72 virgins. Bark in Hell!
Great story, but the incorrect version of the video was used. It should have been the US Army version….