Oil be damned: Iran-based crooks flinging malware at Middle Eastern energy plants again – research An Iran-based hacking crew long known to target energy facilities in neighboring Middle Eastern countries is believed to be launching new attacks. The team at IBM's X-Force said an actively spreading malware package dubbed ZeroCleare looks to be in part the work of APT34, a hacking crew commonly accepted to be operating out of …
As this follows the "throw stone against somebody's head", followed by the "shout: Look, he threw a stone against her head!", tactic.
In case you failed to notice, Iran is BAD now. Hence, we are given weekly updates of Iran's bad-doings. All true as always, guaranteed. Word of honor!
This is one team of researchers announcing their findings. Other teams may look and reach their own conclusions, in time, if the whole show is considered important enough.
And eventually, in a completely separate process, someone (completely different - certainly not IBM) might decide to respond in some way.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. This is not a declaration of war.
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