“Operation Nitro Zeus...was Cyber Command’s piece of the Op Plan 1025 puzzle to shut down Iran's electrical grid. If Olympic Games was the cyber equivalent of a targeted drone strike on Iran, Nitro Zeus was a full-scale attack. Nitro Zeus w…So, TAO might have had something to do with the development of Stuxnet and Flame, malware programs thought to have been jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel. The malware initially targeted the Iranian nuclear program, but quickly made i…
Matthew Aid
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Matthew Aid is a national security journalist and historian who specializes in U.S. intelligence operations and cyber warfare. In the course readings, Aid documents the technical and strategic architecture of major American cyberattacks—specifically Operation Olympic Games (Stuxnet), Operation Nitro Zeus, and related NSA/TAO programs targeting Iran—providing crucial primary-source evidence for how states weaponize digital infrastructure at scale. His work grounds the seminar's discussions of cybernetics and control systems in concrete historical case studies where algorithmic logic became geopolitical force.
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