![]() ![]() In what could be the plot for a Hollywood thriller, the code was planted into the system by a Dutch mole, pretending to be a mechanic, through a USB. In the Stuxnet attack in 2009, the US and Israel used a digital weapon against an Iranian uranium enrichment facility. Soon after, code would be used as not only a ruse for a physical attack, but as the attack itself. ![]() This may have been the first time cyber operations were used to enable an attack. The Syrians woke up the next day and found out what happened. The Israelis had cloaked their kinetic attack with a cyber one, having hacked Syrian radars with images of an empty sky. All the while, Syrian systems showed that there was nothing afoot, controllers saw a clear sky on their radars and no reason to scramble their air defence. JUST before midnight on Sept 5, 2007, Israeli aircraft entered Syrian airspace, bombed an under-construction nuclear reactor, and left four hours later without a shot fired at them. ![]()
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