Iranian hackers take revenge on the attack by the Stuxnet virus

An Iranian hacker said he would take revenge for the nation after the Stuxnet "worm" attacked the Islamic Republic's nuclear reactors.

In the past week, a series of computer systems from Google, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo in the US have been attacked by news. After investigation, technology experts found that the direction of the attack originated in Iran. Shortly thereafter, a hacker nicknamed Comodo claimed to be responsible for these attacks.

In a message posted on the Internet in English, Comodo said: ' I know you are very surprised by my skills, speed and knowledge in this attack. I had the support of about 1,000 hackers in Iran to conduct this attack. We want to protect Iranian leaders and scientists from Western enemies. When the United States and Israel built Stuxnet, no one blamed it or talked about it. Therefore, I did not feel anxious when conducting the attack '.

According to Jacob Appelbaum, a security researcher at the Tor Project nonprofit organization in the US, the attack was carried out in the early days of March. He said that Mozilla and Google quietly continued to update the latest versions of the two browsers, Firefox and Chrome, to avoid Comodo attacks.

Meanwhile, Mikko Hypponen, head of research at computer security company F-Secure, said it was not clear whether Comodo was just a person or a cyber security agency. : ' Hypothetically, a 21-year-old young man can attack the well-guarded computer systems in the US that sound unconvincing. I'm not sure if this is an Iranian government counter-attack . '

In September 2010, Iranian officials admitted that the Stuxnet worm infected at least 30,000 computers running Windows operating systems in the country. Earlier, experts from Iran's Atomic Energy Organization also reported meeting and discussing how to remove the malware.