Mossad used Trojan Horse in Syrian bombing

Hacking in London found nuclear secrets.

Israeli spooks reportedly got details of a Syrian nuclear facility by sending a Trojan Horse to an official when he was staying at a swanky Kensington hotel.

The German magazine Der Spiegel said that the malware copied details about Syria's illicit nuclear program and sent them directly to the Mossad agents' computers.

Israel used the information as justification for its airborne bombing raid on the al-Kabir site in Syria's eastern desert on September 6, 2007. It is believed to have knocked out the country's nearly-completed nuclear reactor that intelligence agencies said was being built with North Korean help.

We guess Syria should have invested in a good heuristic antivirus checker, or made sure that such sensitive data was not left on a laptop even if it was a nice hotel in Kensington.