Who’s the Real ‘Aggressor in Cyberspace’? US Hypocrisy in Iran Hacker Case
The indictment of 7 Iranian hackers by the Justice Department for cyber attacks on American banks and a New York dam laid bare tensions in the US establishment, in which some actors are trying to undermine Iran’s nuclear deal, political analyst Eric Draitser told Sputnik’s Brian Becker.
The case has nothing to do with real security issues, as “countries all over the world got wise to the world that one new element of warfare is cybersecurity warfare,” Draitser told Loud & Clear. “Russia, the US, France, Germany – everybody is engaging in advancing their cyber defense, advancing their cyber defense capabilities,” he added.
Painting Iran as “an aggressor in cyberspace” with teams of hackers that are “constantly trying to penetrate the US cybersecurity,” Washington showcases its own hypocrisy, Draitser said, as it was Americans who first attacked Iran in this cyberspace war.
Between 2011 and 2012, the US — in cooperation with Israel, its closest ally “in the area of cyber warfare” — released the program considered to be “the first example of the cyber weapon,” the analyst stressed. This malware, including such viruses as Gauss, Flame and Stuxnet, were supposed to infiltrate and infect computers inside Iran and to disrupt their nuclear energy program.
“That was the first time in recorded history that we’ve seen the use of such a weapon.” Draitser said. “What that demonstrated was the potential that the US and its Israeli allies have to infiltrate the highest levels of secured computer systems inside of Iran and, frankly, inside of any country they might want to target.”
The US and Israel are “on the cutting edge, on the leading edge of the use of cyber warfare when it comes to use of such weapons,” the analyst added.
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