Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Stuxnet - Going from virtual attacks to physical
« Rails Data Security | Main | Str0ng P@22w!rd? »Amazing article on Stuxnet, a piece of malware so complex that it's taken four months just to decipher it's purpose. Which turns out to be... attacking an Iranian nuclear power plant. So this piece of malware operating in the virtual world is intended to destroy a physical plant in the real world. Methinks we will be seeing more of this type of thing.
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The article is interesting. I have one quibble with it, though: the article says Stuxnet is "first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to destroy a real-world target." The US government, however, claims that it created a Trojan Horse that caused a Trans-Siberian oil pipeline explosion in 1982 ( http://pipelineandgasjournal.com/hacking-industrial-scada-network?page=show ). That attack hasn't been verified, but the article should at least mention it.