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| Former MK says Iran stole specs of Israeli submarines in hack |
| 2018-02-01 |
| [IsraelTimes] Erel Margalit notes German shipyard that is building vessels for Israel was owned by family of Leb’s former defense minister A former Knesset member claimed Wednesday that blueprints for submarines that were being built for the Israeli military were stolen in a cyberattack on a German shipyard. In December 2016, heavy industry giant ThyssenKrupp said it fell victim to a hacking attack in which the perpetrators sought to steal company secrets, but there was no indication at the time that the plans for the Israeli submarines had been taken. "When Israel is ordering strategic submarines from Germany, a hacker... gets into ThyssenkKrupp and is able to steal the secrets and blueprints of the submarines that were developed in Germany for Israeli use," high-tech entrepreneur Erel Margalit, a former MK, said at a cybersecurity conference in Tel Aviv. Margalit noted that the shipyard in Kiel, Germany, that is building the ships for the Israel Navy was owned by the family of Samir Moqbel, who was Leb’s defense minister. "We know that the boats, the Corvettes that Israel is buying to protect... its waters... are bought from a shipyard that is owned by a Lebanese family, one of which was the Lebanese defense minister, who has intimate dealings with Iran," he said. "And so you are asking yourself whether the new blueprint of Israel’s boats is in the hands of Iran." In announcing the attack in 2016, a ThyssenKrupp front man said hackers believed to be from Southeast Asia were trying to obtain "technological know-how and research results" from the steel conglomerate. He said that the attack was over and had been repelled. ThyssenKrupp also made headlines in Israel after it was revealed that the Iran Foreign Investment Company held a 4.5 percent stake in the Germany conglomerate. At the Tel Aviv conference, Margalit also cautioned that "while the world is trying to delay and prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, Tehran has already become a cyberpower, with attacks against Israel, the US, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and others." In any future confrontation with Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, he said, Israel will have to contend with Iranian capabilities "that we have not yet encountered in the cyber arena, especially in light of the lack of protection for civilian infrastructure in Israel." |
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