It was that Lee harvey Oswald, he’s one smart bastard.
Oh come on... it’s pretty obvious and I might say rather ingenious.
Betcha it propagated via a ghosted update link for Siemens PLC equipment. IOW, hacked their update site (redirected update inquiries) and downloaded the worm along with legitimate updates taken from the real update URL. Would take a while to happen, but would get many many places if fake update emails were sent to Siemens PLC users.....check the prior emails.....
All hail to them (unless they point it at us!).
Does its discovery and the resulting patches mean it is no longer a threat?
Was it discovered before it could do any harm other than the cost to remove it or install the patches to make it inactive?
That Dale Peterson guy is everywhere now.
Well, that pretty much rules out all governments as creator of Stuxnet. Start looking at gauche, bespectacled misfits in parental basements.
It was written and executed by a nation. No other virus has ever had 4 zero day exploits and a rootkit of this sophistication. No other virus I have seen has a kill date built in either......2012 IIRC...
My company made using USB thumb drives a firing offense months ago. I wonder how much security discipline the Iranians have? Middle eastern (and other IIIrd World) countries are not famous for their discipline. Remember CIA director John Deutch mishandling classified information. That’s SOP in the third world. The bosses don’t believe the rules apply to them.
Wish I could say that we had a hand in it...but actually, I would expect that Israel was the culprit...thank goodness.
I just hope that this prevents the all out war that seems to be brewing between Israel and several of the other states surrounding it.
Of course, this only delays the inevitable so Israel still may have to kick their butts again...
That would be hilarious, if suddenly a crater were to appear in some Iranian desert and an Israeli pilot just happened to have video of it, sort of like the flotilla flick. One more Jewish media coup for Rick Sanchez to lament, LOL.
Assuming that conventional wisdom is correct, the wide spread of Stuxnet probably also reveals which bastards are assisting or interacting with the the Iranians. I would expected that those traces have already been cached in detail and it's all been echoed back to a recoverable data drop location.
With today's electronic listening capabilities I wouldn't be surprised also if some of this mysterious code isn't set to create a unique noise pattern or other identifiable signal using the internal components of the mainframes and work stations. I've read that it's even possible to cause a monitor "sing" at a specific frequency.
I wouldn't want to be a night janitor at one of these nefarious facilities.
Just goes to show how our highly-advanced technological society hangs by a much thinner thread than people realize.
Paradoxically, in the new Cyberworld, the most vulnerable nations and communities may be the most technologically advanced.
It’s probably the UN out to sabotage Irans nuclear activities after all the years of deceitful activities.
WOW, just imagine the data that might have been harvested.
Truly, every bit as good as Bond. Now, whats the next moove?
bfl
I’m not going to name equipment, but there is a LOT of environmental control equipment that has NO protection from this sort of attack whatsoever.
Can you imagine taking control of the thermostats of every home in the US southwest during the summer? Or the NE during winter?
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