Iran nuclear energy facility hit with malware that plays AC/DC at full volume

[Dino Velvet]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technolo...203806981.html

Iran nuclear energy facility hit with malware that plays AC/DC at full volume

By Mike Wehner, Tecca | Today in Tech – 5 hrs ago


Malware can be a major pain for anyone with a computer or mobile device, as it can lead to security risks like identity theft. But when a virus targets a nuclear facility, the stakes are much much higher. According to a report on security site F-Secure, Iran's nuclear energy group — called the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, or AEOI for short — is reaching out for help to rid its system of a malicious program that not only threatens the facility's daily operations, but also plays a 90s rock anthem on the infected computers.
An email to F-Secure — allegedly sent from an AEOI scientist — detailed the attack, noting that the malware has shut down some of the facility's automated processes. The rather vague wording of the email leaves a few unanswered questions as to just what parts of the AEOI are in danger, but one piece of information was very clear: The insidious software prompted several of the group's computers to being playing the song Thunderstruck in the middle of the night, and at full volume.
This isn't the first time Iran has come under fire from cyber criminals, and it likely won't be the last. But the attackers' decision to play classic rock songs on infected computers is perhaps the most unorthodox way of alerting a nuclear facility that it has fallen victim to hackers.
This article was written by Mike Wehner and originally appeared on Tecca

[Paladin]

Alright!! Highway to Hell!!!!

[Helvis2012]

I like this story.

[Prospero]

Making people listen to AC-DC at full volume seems to me to be an act of war.

[Dino Velvet]

Making people listen to AC-DC at full volume seems to me to be an act of war.

Here 'ya go. Enjoy your cocoa.

[danthepoetman]

Making people listen to AC-DC at full volume seems to me to be an act of war.

Act of war, Prospero? I’d say it’s plain torture… Keep me in a room with high volume AC/DC and I talk; I’ll say whatever but I’ll yak… Almost enough for those engineers to create a meltdown.
Lawrence Welk would do it too for me...

Yet it must be the funniest news in recent memory… Delirious!

[Prospero]

Thanks Dino - at this hour its good old turbo charged coffee

and Lawrence Welk... way to go!

[MdR Dave]

A US-Israeli venture like the last one, I bet.

Wonder why they didn't use klezmer music instead?

[Prospero]

Well US forces have used hyper loud thrash music to torture prisoners and internees.

[danthepoetman]

Remember how they also have to get Noriega out of the Vatican’s embassy?