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Iranian Revolutionary Guards Plan Cyber Army to "Conquer Virtual Space"

(Newsweek) Babak Dehghanpisheh - Symantec, an antivirus software company, estimates that more than 60,000 computers in Iran have been infected by the Stuxnet worm. Iranian officials - who have blamed the U.S. and Israel for the worm - see the attack as the latest round of a cyberwar targeting Iran and have formed the Cyber Army, a group linked to the Revolutionary Guards. A Guard spokesman has said that the goal of the Cyber Army is to "conquer virtual space." As part of that effort, 120 members of the Basij militia were recently sent for training in "social networking, psychological operations, protection from Internet spying, mobile phones and their capabilities, Basij cybercenters and videogames that would allow penetration into virtual space." Regardless of who created Stuxnet, Iran intends to fire its own shots in the cyberwar.
2010-10-07 11:34:16
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