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Dutch Mole Aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet Cyberattack on Iran
(Yahoo News) Kim Zetter and Huib Modderkolk - How did the U.S. and Israel get their Stuxnet malware onto computer systems at Iran's highly secured uranium-enrichment plant? An Iranian engineer recruited by the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD at the behest of the CIA and the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, provided critical data that helped the U.S. developers target their code to the systems at Natanz, according to four intelligence sources. The Iranian then slipped Stuxnet onto those systems using a USB flash drive.