Dueling Hackers: Difference between revisions

* Nations and political factions anywhere from the level of superpowers to the level of terrorist rings regularly keep an arsenal of offensive, defensive, or just Signint (signals intelligence) apps. As well as hacker teams to run them. One of the most famous was the Stuxnet virus which leapfrogged from computer to computer and deleting itself in any that did not contain what it's instructions told it to target until it reached it's prey. This happened to be the Iranian nuclear facilities and is generally suspected to have been launched by the US and/or Israeli secret services. It was picked up, tracked, and dissected remarkably soon by white hatters from security companies but by that time it had done what it had been intended to do. In this case the perps and the white hats were each other's [[Worthy Opponent|Worthy Opponents]] kind of by accident and the Iranians were not a player as they got stomped from the get-go.