Understanding Stuxnet
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The Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence agency, attacked the Iranian nuclear program with a highly sophisticated computer virus called Stuxnet. The first digital weapon of geopolitical importance, it could change the way wars are fought -- and it will not be the last attack of its kind. The complex on a hill near an interchange on the highway from Tel Aviv to Haifa is known in Israel simply as "The Hill." The site, as big as several soccer fields, is sealed off from the outside world with high walls and barbed wire -- a modern fortress that symbolizes Israel's fight for survival in the Middle East. As the headquarters of Israel's foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, this fortress is strictly off-limits to politicians and journalists alike.
Mossad's Miracle Weapon: Stuxnet Virus Opens New Era of Cyber War - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Stuxnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stuxnet is a computer worm discovered in June 2010. It initially spreads via Microsoft Windows , and targets Siemens industrial software and equipment. While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems, [ 1 ] it is the first discovered malware that spies on and subverts industrial systems, [ 2 ] and the first to include a programmable logic controller (PLC) rootkit . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The worm initially spreads indiscriminately, but includes a highly specialized malware payload that is designed to target only Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that are configured to control and monitor specific industrial processes. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Stuxnet infects PLCs by subverting the Step-7 software application that is used to reprogram these devices. [ 7 ] [ 8 ]Next@Norton: The Dangers of Stuxnet Analyzed - Bright Side Of News*
Kaboom! That’s what can happen when Stuxnet-type threats are unleashed. A new breed of hacker is afoot. Their creation is insidious, destructive, and a harbinger of the future. Pat Gardner of Symantec explained that malware authors have switched tactics from a macro distribution model that harms many to a micro distribution using a unique model that infects less than 50 users, or just a single facility.
- Vue par satellite de l'emplacement de l'usine secrète d'enrichissement uranium près de Qom Reuters - Une véritable attaque a été lancée par les Iisraéliens et les Américains contre l'Iran. Mais il ne s'agit pas d'une guerre comme on l’entend d’habitude avec son cortège de bombes et de morts, mais à coup de virus informatiques. La maladie se répand alors sans faire de victimes humaines.
Israël a lancé une attaque électronique contre l'Iran | Slate
Stuxnet has been around since last year and its workings were first described four months ago. But such was the size and complexity of its coding that only more recently has its true nature become fully clear. What scores of analysts like O Murchu, who works for the anti-virus firm Symantec, have found is that it targets the industrial infrastructure that underlies our everyday lives. They have also found that the country worst affected is Iran, which by last week had reported around three in every five infections worldwide. It has not taken long for the implications to be spelt out.
Stuxnet virus attack on Iranian nuclear programme: the first strike by computer? - Telegraph
BBC News - US and Israel were behind Stuxnet claims researcher
Iran's Bushehr reactor is believed to have been on of the intended targets for Stuxnet. Israel and the United States created the Stuxnet worm to sabotage Iran's nuclear programme, a leading security expert has claimed. Ralph Langner told a conference in California that the malicious software was designed to cripple systems that could help build an Iranian bomb. Speaking at the TED conference in Long Beach, California, Mr Langner said: "My opinion is that Mossad [Israel's intelligence agency] is involved."
Largement exposé dans les médias, le virus Stuxnet aurait été conçu par un Etat cherchant à démanteler par la force le programme nucléaire iranien. Ah bon? Pas si sûr.
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Stuxnet worm is the 'work of a national government agency' | Technology | guardian.co.uk
A heatmap showing the number of computers infected by the Stuxnet computer worm. A computer worm which targets industrial and factory systems is almost certainly the work of a national government agency, security experts told the Guardian – but warn that it will be near-impossible to identify the culprit. The "Stuxnet" computer worm, which has been described as one of the "most refined pieces of malware ever discovered", has been most active in Iran , says the security company Symantec – leading some experts to conjecture that the likely target of the virus is the controversial Bushehr nuclear power plant , and that it was created by Israeli hackers. Speaking to the Guardian, security experts confirmed that Stuxnet is a targeted attack on industrial locations in specific countries, the sophistication of which takes it above and beyond previous attacks of a similar nature. Graph shows concentration of Stuxnet-infected computers in Iran as of August.Langner is a consulting company focusing on robust and secure control system networks. Our clients are in critical infrastructure (including nuclear), oil & gas, chemicals, and manufacturing – basically in every industry where more is at risk than just information. Our services cover the whole range from the field work that is required for realistic risk assessments, to strategic management briefings. Established in 1988, we have accumulated over twenty years of experience. Our technical leadership was demonstrated by our globally recognized success in cracking the first cyber weapon in history – the Stuxnet malware.
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Stuxnet malware is 'weapon' out to destroy ... Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant? - CSMonitor.com
Cyber security experts say they have identified the world's first known cyber super weapon designed specifically to destroy a real-world target – a factory, a refinery, or just maybe a nuclear power plant. Skip to next paragraph The cyber worm, called Stuxnet , has been the object of intense study since its detection in June. As more has become known about it, alarm about its capabilities and purpose have grown.