Pundita comment: U.S.-Iran contretemps getting sillier by the hour
June 22, 2019
Yahoo News via Sputnik
Iranian cyber-intelligence operatives are said to have hacked into a ship tracking website to track civilian vessels and used other measures to track US military ships, according to former US officials.
The US Cyber Command launched a retaliatory strike Thursday against what is said to be the Iranian intelligence group allegedly responsible for last week’s bombings of two oil tankers, according to a Yahoo News report citing two unnamed former intelligence officials.
According to the report, an undisclosed intelligence group, which has ties to Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has “hacked” into marine traffic tracking websites and gathered information about civilian vessels, and somehow digitally tracked military ones operating in the Strat of Hormuz.
The report does not disclose why the Iranians needed to hack into a website openly available for anyone on the Web.
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