While it’s never been officially disclosed exactly who created Stuxnet, thewormis widely understood to have been developed together by the US and Israel governments. Increasingly concerned by the progression of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the two governments examined a range of options, which...
While it’s never been officially disclosed exactly who created Stuxnet, thewormis widely understood to have been developed together by the US and Israel governments. Increasingly concerned by the progression of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the two governments examined a range of options, which...
The story of the Stuxnet worm made a lot of headlines a year ago and gave information security folks chills. Who created it, and why, is still a mystery. However, rumor has it that American and Israeli Intelligence wanted to use it to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program. The story is v...
Stuxnet explained: What it is, who created it and how it works Stuxnet has become synonymous with cyberattacks and cyberwarfare. To this day, questions continue about who created Stuxnet, how did Stuxnet work, and why Stuxnet is significant to cybersecurity. Read on to find answers to these ...
The technical prowess needed to create such a piece of malware, and the fact it exploited 4 zero day bugs lead many to suggest that it was created by anintelligence agency, and theNSAwas long suspected. The2016filmZero Daysquotes an anonymous source that Stuxnet was developed by theNSAin con...
deleting malware it's discovered on PCs in the country. Dubbed Batchwiper , the malware systematically wipes any drive partitions starting with the letters D through I Drive, along with any files stored on the Windows desktop of the user who is logged in when it's executed Why naming Batch...
This whole system, which as the article describes took “vast resources” to develop, has been created on the single assumption that some people’s IT security behaviour will be so lax that it will enable it to infiltrate the target sites ...
For those hackers who take pleasure in harming others, a tool derived from Stuxnet or other ICS exploits would offer an attractive possibility. But even those who are not so motivated might experiment with such a tool in order to see what it does and show off to their friends. In the pro...
and everyone knew it. Speculation has long swirled around government-backed hackers from nations like China and Russia, especially, who have been suspected of involvement in espionage, industrial trade secret theft, and much else. Would something like Stuxnet damage US credibility when it complained...
The IT layer which is used to spread the malware, the control system layer which is used to manipulate (but not disrupt) process control, and finally the physical layer where the actual damage is created. In the case of the cyber attack against Natanz, the vulnerability on the physical lay...