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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Thunderstruck: Iranian Computer Systems Hit With ‘AC/DC’ Attack

Computer systems in Iran were allegedly attacked on Monday by a malware that forced workstations “to play AC/DC’s Thunderstruck at full volume in the middle of the night,” the International Business Times reports.

We don’t care what anyone says, that’s pretty much the most awesome act of international
sabotage we’ve ever heard of.

Lead researcher at the Finnish computer security firm F-Secure Mikko Hypponen wrote on his blog that a colleague working at the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran
(AEOI) sent him an e-mail informing him that the system had come under cyber-attack.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Who ever did this should have played "Hell Awaits" by Slayer. That would have been fitting.

lmclain said...

I'm thinking "Highway to Hell" would have just as good.....no matter, we will be at war with them as soon as we can finish running out of Afghanistan --- there is already a huge backlog of inventory of missles, bullets, and bombs. Something's got to give....