For years, the two countries in the Middle East targeted each other’s military and intelligence sites in cyber attacks.
The best known, from Israel’s side, was Stuxnet – reportedly developed jointly by the U.S. and Israel — that struck the computer system of the Natanz nuclear site, an underground facility in central Iran. The New York Times reported that at least 1,000 of 5,000 centrifuges were temporarily destroyed. Given the history of a successful cyber war against Iran, Israel could launch a massive cyber war, targeting nuclear sites inside Iran, missiles and drone production systems, and the bases the Islamic Republic used to fire its missiles and drones last weekend.
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Source: MSN News
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