Projections this week state that the Iranian Cyber Army has a botnet of over 400k machines. They apparently plan to offer rental of these "assets" to interested parties. The ICA maintains that this is not "retribution" for the Stuxnet attacks on Irani Nuclear facilities, but rather a money making opportunity. One of the discussions/debates featured in the last meeting of the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA: www.cyberconflict.org ) was the … [Read more...]
Some Thoughts on the Iranian Cyber Army and what they mean to Cyber
December 5, 2010 By RyanKamauff
Filed Under: CTO, Cyber Security Tagged With: Botnet, Machine, Malware, Metaphor, Nuclear weapon, Personal computer, stuxnet, Twitter, Weapons-grade