The first report about computer virus infecting US military networks came on October 8 from Wired magazine. It reported that the virus captured strokes on a keyboard in drones’ cockpits at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada, making it tricky for the pilots who remotely fly assault drones like Predator and Reaper.
It became known that the problem was detected over two weeks ago, but the spyware proved to be a high-end program and the military IT specialists were unable to erase it from the system or quarantine it.
"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," a source told Wired.
The US military has shared no information on whether the virus has also been trying to extract any classified data from the military networks.
So far it remains unknown how the network became infected – was it an orchestrated attack or did the virus get into the secured network accidentally? More.
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