अमेरिका ने ईरान को दिया मुंहतोड़ जवाब, साइबर हमले से हुआ भारी नुकसान

लंबे समय से ईरान व अमेरिका के बीच लगातार तनाव की स्थिति बनी हुई है. गुरुवार को ईरान ने अमेरिका के जासूसी ड्रोन को मार गिराया था. जिसके बाद अब अमेरिका ने भी ईरान को जवाब दे डाला. जानें अमेरिका ने ईरान को आखिर कैसे जवाब दिया.

अमेरिका ने ईरान पर साइबर हमला किया

Published : Jun 23, 2019, 4:51 PM IST

Updated : Jun 23, 2019, 9:16 PM IST

वाशिंगटनः अपने जासूसी ड्रोन गिराए जाने एवं ईरान के साथ चल रही तनातनी के बीच अमेरिका ने ईरान पर साइबर हमले किए हैं.

दरअसल अमेरिका ने ईरान की मिसाइल नियंत्रण प्रणाली और एक जासूसी नेटवर्क पर साइबर हमले किये हैं.

अमेरिकी समाचार पत्र वाशिंगटन पोस्ट से मिली खबर के मुताबिक हमले से राकेट और मिसाइल प्रक्षेपण में इस्तेमाल होने वाले कंप्यूटरों को नुकसान पहुंचा है.

हालांकि अमेरिका के रक्षा अधिकारियों ने समाचार पत्र की रिपोर्ट की पुष्टि नहीं की है.

याहू ने दो पूर्व खुफिया अधिकारियों के हवाले से कहा है कि अमेरिका ने सामरिक हॉर्मूज जलडमरूमध्य में जहाजों पर नज़र रखने वाले एक जासूसी समूह को निशाना बनाया. अमेरिका का आरोप है कि ईरान ने इसी जगह हाल में ही में दो बार उसके तेल टैंकरों पर हमले किये थे.

पढ़ेंः ईरान के खिलाफ सैन्य कार्रवाई पर अब भी विचार : ट्रंप

बता दें दोनों देशों के बीच तनाव की शुरुआत ईरान के परमाणु सौदे से अमेरिका के बाहर होने के बाद से हुई है.

गौरतलब है कि ईरान ने बृहस्पतिवार को अमेरिका के एक ड्रोन को मार गिराया था. ईरान का दावा है कि ड्रोन ने उसके हवाई क्षेत्र का उल्लंघन किया था.

इस हमले के बाद राष्ट्रपति ट्रंप ने नाराजगी जताते हुए ट्वीट कर ईरान की कड़ी आलोचना भी की थी. ट्रंप ने ईरान पर हमला करने की बात कही थी.

लेकिन बाद में ट्रंप ने अपने हमले के विचार का त्याग करते हुए शनिवार को कहा कि अमेरिका अगले सप्ताह ईरान पर बड़े प्रतिबंध लगाएगा.

पढ़ेंः ईरान के खिलाफ सैन्य कार्रवाई पर अब भी विचार : ट्रंप

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AP sources: US struck Iranian military computers this week
Washington, Jun 23 (AP) US military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran's downing of a US surveillance drone, US officials have said.
Two officials told The Associated Press on Saturday that the strikes were conducted with approval from Trump. A third official confirmed the broad outlines of the strike. All spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the operation.
The cyberattacks a contingency plan developed over weeks amid escalating tensions disabled Iranian computer systems that controlled its rocket and missile launchers, the officials said.
Two of the officials said the attacks, which specifically targeted Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps computer system, were provided as options after Iranian forces blew up two oil tankers earlier this month.
The IRGC, which was designated a foreign terrorist group by the Trump administration earlier this year, is a branch of the Iranian military.
The action by US Cyber Command was a demonstration of the US' increasingly mature cyber military capabilities and its more aggressive cyber strategy under the Trump administration. Over the last year US officials have focused on persistently engaging with adversaries in cyberspace and undertaking more offensive operations.
There was no immediate reaction Sunday morning in Iran to the US claims. Iran has hardened and disconnected much of its infrastructure from the internet after the Stuxnet computer virus, widely believed to be a joint US-Israeli creation, disrupted thousands of Iranian centrifuges in the late 2000s.
Tensions have escalated between the two countries ever since the US withdrew last year from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and began a policy of "maximum pressure."
Iran has since been hit by multiple rounds of sanctions. Tensions spiked this past week after Iran shot down an unmanned US drone - an incident that nearly led to a US military strike against Iran on Thursday evening.
The cyberattacks are the latest chapter in the US and Iran's ongoing cyber operations targeting the other. Yahoo News first reported the cyber strike.
In recent weeks, hackers believed to be working for the Iranian government have targeted US government agencies, as well as sectors of the economy, including finance, oil and gas, sending waves of spear-phishing emails, according to representatives of cybersecurity companies CrowdStrike and FireEye, which regularly track such activity. This new campaign appears to have started shortly after the Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Iranian petrochemical sector this month.
It was not known if any of the hackers managed to gain access to the targeted networks with the emails, which typically mimic legitimate emails but contain malicious software.
Tensions have run high between the two countries since the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran last year and began a policy of "maximum pressure." Iran has since been hit by multiple rounds of sanctions. Then Iran shot down an unmanned US drone this week.
"Both sides are desperate to know what the other side is thinking," said John Hultquist, director of intelligence analysis at FireEye. "You can absolutely expect the regime to be leveraging every tool they have available to reduce the uncertainty about what's going to happen next, about what the US' next move will be." CrowdStrike shared images of the spear-phishing emails with the AP.
One such email that was confirmed by FireEye appeared to come from the Executive Office of the President and seemed to be trying to recruit people for an economic adviser position. Another email was more generic and appeared to include details on updating Microsoft Outlook's global address book.
The Iranian actor involved in the cyberattack, dubbed "Refined Kitten" by CrowdStrike, has for years targeted the US energy and defense sectors, as well as allies such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, said Adam Meyers, vice president of intelligence at CrowdStrike.
The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement released Saturday that its agency tasked with infrastructure security has been aware of a recent rise in malicious cyber activities directed at US government agencies by Iranian regime actors and proxies.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher C. Krebs said the agency has been working with the intelligence community and cybersecurity partners to monitor Iranian cyber activity and ensure the US and its allies are safe.
The National Security Agency would not discuss Iranian cyber actions specifically, but said in a statement to the AP on Friday that "there have been serious issues with malicious Iranian cyber actions in the past."
"In these times of heightened tensions, it is appropriate for everyone to be alert to signs of Iranian aggression in cyberspace and ensure appropriate defenses are in place," the NSA said.
Iran has long targeted the US oil and gas sectors and other critical infrastructure, but those efforts dropped significantly after the nuclear agreement was signed. After Trump withdrew the US from the deal in May 2018, cyber experts said they have seen an increase in Iranian hacking efforts. (AP)
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