The earthquake, the tsunami and the worm. - storify.com. Iran: Computer Malware Sabotaged Uranium Centrifuges. In what appears to be the first confirmation that the Stuxnet malware hit Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that malicious computer code launched by “enemies” of the state had sabotaged centrifuges used in Iran’s nuclear-enrichment program.
The surprise announcement at a press conference coincided with news that two of Iran’s top nuclear scientists had been ambushed Monday by assassins who killed one scientist and seriously injured the other. Iran had previously acknowledged that Stuxnet infected the personal computers of workers at its Bushehr nuclear power plant but had insisted that the malware had not infected work systems involved in the nuclear program, and that the program itself had not been harmed. Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel. Stuxnet Computer Virus Attacks Iran’s Bushehr Nuclear Plant.
Stuxnet could harm nuclear safety: U.N. atom chief. Stuxnet could harm nuclear safety: U.N. atom chief | Reuters.
By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA | Tue Feb 1, 2011 10:08am EST VIENNA (Reuters) – Cyber attacks such as the Stuxnet computer worm could harm nuclear sites but Russia and Iran are paying “enough attention” to prevent any possible accident at Iran’s Bushehr reactor, the U.N. nuclear chief said on Tuesday. Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Reuters the U.N. watchdog was watching developments and gathering information about Stuxnet with interest.
Russia has urged NATO to investigate last year’s Stuxnet attack on the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant in Iran, saying it could have triggered a disaster on the scale of the Chernobyl reactor explosion in Ukraine in 1986. Stuxnet 'cyber superweapon' moves to China.