'We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,' Wired quoted a source as saying. The air force said in a statement that it did not discuss threats to its computer networks because it could help hackers refine their tactics. Network security specialists were uncertain whether the virus was part of a directed attack or accidentally infected the networks, the story said. The story said there were no confirmed reports that classified data had been stolen and that the virus did not stop pilots from flying missions.
Wired magazine reported that the spyware has resisted efforts to remove it from computers in the cockpits at Creech air force base in Nevada, where pilots remotely fly Predator and Reaper drones in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. A computer virus that captures the strokes on a keyboard has infected networks used by pilots who control US air force drones flown on the front line, according to a report.
