{"id":17876,"date":"2018-11-03T15:48:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/29474\/30-Spies-Dead-After-Iran-Cracked-CIA-Comms-Network-With-Er-Google-Search.html"},"modified":"2018-11-03T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:48:13","slug":"30-spies-dead-after-iran-cracked-cia-comms-network-with-er-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/30-spies-dead-after-iran-cracked-cia-comms-network-with-er-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Spies Dead After Iran Cracked CIA Comms Network With, Er, Google Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran apparently infiltrated the communications network of CIA agents who allowed their secret websites, used to exchange messages with informants, to be crawled by Google.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/cias-communications-suffered-catastrophic-compromise-started-iran-090018710.html\">A report<\/a> from Yahoo<em>!<\/em> news claims that a 2009 breach of the US spy bods&#8217; communications channels came after the Iranian government infiltrated a series of websites the CIA had used to talk to its local sources in places like Iran and China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still dealing with the fallout,\u201d said one former national security official. \u201cDozens of people around the world were killed because of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"><span>Web scraping is a two-edged sword<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The communications leak was believed to have stemmed from a simple Google search. Suspecting the US had agents and sources within its nuclear program, Iran began to hunt for the mole. After a double agent showed Iran&#8217;s government one of the sites, they were then able to use Google to identify other sites the intel agency was using and began to intercept communications.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because Google is continuously scraping the internet for information about all the world\u2019s websites, it can function as a tremendous investigative tool \u2014 even for counter-espionage purposes,&#8221; the report claims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And Google\u2019s search functions allow users to employ advanced operators \u2014 like &#8216;AND&#8217;, &#8216;OR&#8217;, and other, much more sophisticated ones \u2014 that weed out and isolate websites and online data with extreme specificity.&#8221; As a result Iran announced the intelligence coup and arrested many operatives. Some were executed, although other managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Once Iran was able to track down the sites their techniques were given to other friendly countries, who in turn used the information to weed out the CIA&#8217;s communications channel in their own territories as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2018\/04\/17\/shutterstock_pentagons.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Pentagon - building - houses the US dept of defense in Arlington Virginia\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"Report claims former intel worker believed to be behind data dump\">Ex-CIA man fingered as prime suspect in Vault 7 spy tool manuals leak<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/05\/15\/vault_7_leak\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIran was aggressively going out to hunt systems down,\u201d a former intelligence official said. \u201cThey weren\u2019t just protecting themselves anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"><span>The death toll mounts<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>This, Yahoo<em>!<\/em> says (citing agency officials), culminated in a 2012 incident in China where 30 agents working for the US were caught and executed.<\/p>\n<p>The CIA does appear to have lucked out when it comes to Russia. The Intelligence Agency ring fences its Russian activities and the report states that intel chiefs were quick to harden up its Russian communications channel at the first sign of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>But the rest of the agency had become too reliant on the system, which was originally intended to only be a temporary communications channel, and had left the relatively insecure site up far longer than intended and used it to send information that should have been reserved for more secure channels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was never meant to be used long term for people to talk to sources,&#8221; the report quotes one official as saying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue was that it was working well for too long, with too many people. But it was an elementary system. Everyone was using it far beyond its intention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"crosshead\"><span>Shooting the messenger<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>A defense contractor for the CIA named John Reidy claims he warned the agency that it was using insecure communications systems in 2008, and again in 2010 when he started to suspect the channels had been cracked. A year later he was fired by the agency, a move he claims was retaliation for not shutting up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a recipe for disaster,\u201d Reidy <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article28348576.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe had a catastrophic failure on our hands that would ensnare a great many of our sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reidy said that he appealed to the CIA&#8217;s Inspector General and those who were supposed to be providing congressional oversight. 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