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  • Predator, Reaper drones attacked by virus software

    Military operation center at Creech Air Base infected by keylogger virus that halts drone missions
    A sophisticated computer virus infected the computers at Creech Air Force Base that control the drones (unmanned aircrafts) engaged in U.S. aerial missions overseas, e.g. Afghanistan, etc… However the tricky virus did not impede the pilots from remotely-controlling their aircrafts. Fortunately no tragic incidents were reported.

    The virus itself turned out to be deeply embedded in the military’s sistem with multiple removel efforts being unsuscessful. “We keep deleting it but it keeps coming back”, said a military official appointed with the network infection issue.

    So far the IT experts are not sure if the computer virus and ots “keylogger” payload were sneaked on purpose or it was just an accident. There are suspicion on possibile junk of malware which made its way into the most important networks. What is known is the fact that the infection affected both classified and non-classified computers at Creech base. There are some fears that secret information was taken over by the keylogger and sent out of the military sistem into the public world.

    The drone are considered the most convenient, important, secure weapon system of the American defense. It permits the army to carry out mission without involving and jeopardizing the life of the personnel.
    The Predator and Reaper drone are employed in missions over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Libya. One of their suscessful operation was the killing of high-ranking terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki who was deadly his in the Horn of Africa – Southern Arabia region.
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    Yet the drones are not perfectly secure as many video footages broadcast by the aircrafts to the U.S. troops were found into the possession of Iraqi militants who downloaded the files using a cheap 26 bucks software. But the encryption problem can be improved in time.

    Predator and Reaper crews use removable hard drives to load maps and send videos of the operation between computers. The virus is thought to have acted using exactly the removable drives. Drone units at other Air Force bases worldwide needed to cease their missions.

    At first the specialists at Creech tried to get rid of virus by following the removal instructions delivered by Kaspersky security firm. “But the virus kept coming back,” the technicians said. They had to employ a software tool called BCWipe to totally delete the GCS’ internal hard drives. “That meant they have to start everything from zero, which takeslot of time, but seems to be no other secure alternative”