A kind person reading this blog has suggested we take a look at Stuxnet malware- great idea.
Part of the new age of cyber warfare, the power worm or malware was created early in 2010 and distributed soon after February and is presently causing chaos for Siemens by targeting their software. But it probably took more than a year to build.
Tehran and Beijing, or Pyong yang did not, and could not, develop this worm. The only other computer-enabled power probably capable of doing it, Russia, appears to have been used as a host for this digital destroyer rather than the origin. German developers didn’t do it – their national brand, Siemens, was the target. Unless someone inside Siemens is a post-industrial malware mole. Hmmm.
Engineers from Russia carried infected laptops into Iran. It appears they used non-fixed IP to contact their homes using Windows software before leaving Moscow.
Engineers unwittingly then infected the Bushehr Power plant enterprise software. That’s what we know. Tehran claims it was not a serious out-tage. Sure, pal.
Its not the first of its kind, hackers have used worms to spy on intelligence agencies for year, but Stuxnet is one of the finest worms yet developed that targets industrial systems. Its curious that eastern Europeans noticed this code first. Perhaps not.
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