Cyber weapons in the Israel-Iran conflict may hit the US

The current Israel–Iran military conflict is taking place in the era of hybrid war, where cyberattacks amplify and assist missiles and troops, and is being waged between two countries with very capable destructive cyber weapons.

Iran is widely expected to retaliate against Israel's missile strikes with cyber operations — and these could extend to American targets, according to cyber warfare experts and threat analysts.

"I would expect there to be a cyber component of both the Israeli and Iranian activities," former White House advisor Michael Daniel told The Register. 

Daniel, who now leads the threat-intel sharing nonprofit Cyber Threat Alliance, said both countries "have the capability to conduct a range of activities, from fully reversible DDoS [distributed denial-of-service] attacks, which could disrupt online services temporarily, to destructive wiper attacks. At the very least, I am sure both sides are using cyber capabilities to conduct espionage and reconnaissance."  

While cyber ...