Iran says Siemens behind Stuxnet cyber attack http://www.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1290382

The director of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization has said that the German engineering conglomerate Siemens should be held responsible for the infection of Iranian industrial sites by the Stuxnet computer worm.“Siemens should explain why and how it provided the enemies with the information about the codes of the SCADA software (which is used at some of Iran’s major industrial sites) and prepared the ground for a cyber attack against us,” Gholam-Reza Jalali told IRNA on Saturay.Iranian officials should lodge a complaint against Siemens, he said.

Jalali also said that the United States and the Zionist regime were involved in the cyber attack against Iran.“The investigations and research showed that the Stuxnet worm had been disseminated from sources in the U.S. and Israel,” he stated.“This computer worm is first installed on a computer system and then transfers data from the infected system to the intended destination,” he explained. He went on to say that the investigations revealed that data had been transferred to locations in the U.S. and Israel. 

Elsewhere in his remarks, Jalali called on the Foreign Ministry to take legal action against the countries which organized the cyber attack against Iran.“It was a hostile action which could have inflicted serious damage on the country if it had not been dealt with in a timely manner… So the Foreign Ministry and other relevant political and judicial organizations should lodge complaints at international courts,” he stated. “The attacking countries should be held legally responsible for the cyber attack,” he said. “If we were not ready to tackle the crisis and their attack was successful, the attack could have created tragic incidents at the country’s industrial sites and refineries,” he added