Communication security

CIA system HACK as Iran DISMANTLES ENTIRE spy network using Google in ‘nightmare scenario’

IRAN humiliated the CIA in one of the organisations biggest intelligence blunders by uncovering a secret communication system by using only Google.

Several former members of the CIA who were stationed in Iran have said that Iran was able to uncover their secret internet-based communications system that the Agency had used in order to communicate with sources.

However, it is believed that the weakness in the system was discovered prior to Iran.

Defence contractor John Reidy worked for the CIA in Iran and would contact and manage human sources that they had.

In 2008, Mr Reidy says that he warned the CIA about a “massive intelligence failure” related to “communications” with sources.

While the CIA could have avoided this massive intelligence failure if they listened to Mr Reidy’s warning, a year later the very “nightmare scenario” that he had described became a reality.

...The report says that Iran had used Google to find the CIA’s fake websites that they were using to communicate with their sources and used its search engine to find other sites with similar digital signatures.

From there, Tehran just traced anyone who visited these sites and uncovered the network.

US intelligence is still not sure if China and Iran had worked together on this or if they did it on their own.

An official added that both of the systems that had been used in each country were very similar.