‘AC/DC’ virus hits Iranian nuclear plants

TEHRAN, July 26 (UPI) — A Web site monitoring spyware said statements from Iran suggest nuclear plants were hit by a virus causing computers to play music from rock band AC/DC.

F-Secure Security Labs reported that it reviewed messages from Iranian nuclear energy scientists that stated the computer systems at the Natanz and Fordo nuclear facilities were compromised by a computer worm.

The scientists, which the lab confirmed were Iranian, said the Metasploit hacker tool was used to attack and shut down its automated network and Siemens hardware.

“There was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the middle of the night with the volume maxed out,” the message, as translated by the lab, read. “I believe it was playing ‘Thunderstruck’ by AC/DC.”