A recently disclosed document from the National Security Agency about the escalation of cyberattacks between the United States and Iran presents a chilling summary of how swiftly cyberwarfare developed from the first salvos against Iran’s nuclear program a few years ago to a full-fledged cyberarms race.
The attacks and
counterattacks grew in scope, it shows, even as the United
States and its Western partners tried to curb Iran’s nuclear
ambitions, fostering the sense that doomsday bombs of the past
were being supplanted by futuristic weapons far easier to
develop and deploy, yet with enormous potential for destruction.
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