Stuxnet is new and being described by numerous. The most sophisticated malware ever is one of the most common description. It is something computer security specialists in the world are amazed by. They have decided sabotage is the primary goal of the Stuxnet called a search and destroy weapon. The Stuxnet is said by cybersecurity specialists to be so complex that it could only are made by a nation-state. This means that no rogue hackers could recreate the technology. Information hacked typically is data on factories, power plants and water systems as Stuxnet travels. It also does not travel via the internet as it is spread through thumb drives and printer spoolers instead. Iran seems to have seen this one of the most leading numerous to believe the Bushehr nuclear power plant was the target of the Stuxnet.
Is the Bushehr reactor going to be sabotaged by Stuxnet?
June was the first time Stuxnet was detected. The Christian Science Monitor explains that the encryption of the program is extremely complex. In fact, computer security specialists are extremely confused by it. Stuxnet is the only software known that steals software for chemical plants, factories, power plants and electric grids within the world that has been found. Cybersecurity researcher Ralph Langler told the Monitor that Stuxnet is a precision, military-grade cyber missile deployed to seek and destroy one high value target. Langer suggests that target has already been hit: Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. Bushehr’s scheduled startup in August has been delayed for unknown reasons.
How Stuxnet seeks and destroys
Stuxnet has already infected around 45,000 computer systems throughout the world. Computer systems not connected to the web for security purposes are what the worm targeted, as outlined by the Daily Mail. USB thumb drives spread the virus to PCs running Microsoft Windows. No clicking or keying is needed for Stuxnet to hijack a PC. Once embedded, Stuxnet seeks out software developed by Siemens that runs industrial control systems. After discovering the software, it reprograms it. The software gets dangerous instructions that are new. Experts say Stuxnet is capable of taking control of key processes to set off a sequence that makes an entire system self-destruct.
Stuxnet starts cyber warfare
Because of the variety of techniques in its package and its code, Stuxnet has set off some alarms. BBC News explained that Liam O’Murchu of Symantec, discovering the worm and tracking it down, says that Stuxnet works by spreading with new techniques never seen. The worm works with vulnerabilities in Windows. These weren’t known before this. O’Murchu said Stuxnet was a very big, well-planned, well-funded project. Langer explains that Stuxnet has lots of insider knowledge. It was needed to create a sabotage attack like this. ”This isn’t some hacker sitting in the basement of his parents’ house,” he said. It had to be more. “To me, it seems the resources needed to stage this attack point to a nation state.”
Find more info on this subject
Christian Science Monitor
csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0921/Stuxnet-malware-is-weapon-out-to-destroy-Iran-s-Bushehr-nuclear-plant
Daily Mail
dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1314580/Stuxnet-worm-targeted-Iranian-nuclear-power-station-sophisticated-virus-attack-ever.html?ITO=1490
BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11388018
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