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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday October 11 2017, @10:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the ransomware dept.

A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other war zones.

The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the US military's most important weapons system.

"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. "We think it's benign. But we just don't know."

The NSA was too busy reading your little sister's diary to fix it.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:08PM (1 child)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday October 11 2017, @06:08PM (#580643)

    I'm crossing my fingers that the "benign" virus activates during the next State of the Union, and sends every drone available to level the Capitol building to the ground.
    I believe it would fit the operational rules of blowing up any group of highly dangerous individuals threatening the US.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:06PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:06PM (#580704) Journal

    From your mouth to god's ears.

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    Washington DC delenda est.