Operation Olympic Games - Threat Group Cards: A Threat Actor
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 APT group: Operation Olympic Games
Names
Operation Olympic Games (self given)
GOSSIPGIRL (?)
Country
 USA
 Israel
Sponsor State-sponsored, Equation Group (NSA), CIA and Unit 8200
Motivation Information theft and espionage, Sabotage and destruction
First seen 2007
Description
The events have been described in detail in the 2015 book Countdown to Zero Day and the
2016 documentary Zero Days. The piece of crucial information that was missing from both
sources, how the malware was actually brought inside the facility, was documented in an
investigative report in 2019.
(The New York Times) From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered
increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran’s main nuclear
enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America’s first sustained use of cyberweapons,
according to participants in the program.
Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in
the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz
plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began
studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name:
Stuxnet.
Observed
Sectors: Energy.
Countries: Iran.
Tools used Stuxnet.
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Information
Last change to this card: 17 January 2024
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