Stuxnet was the first modern cyberweapon: a targeted attack on a nuclear facility. We now know it’s possible, so we know it will happen again.
Stuxnet was the first modern cyberweapon: a targeted attack on a nuclear facility. We now know it’s possible, so we know it will happen again.
Environmental activists I know found their systems hacked via infected USB sticks five years ago. So the use of the medium per se can’t have been news to Microsoft…
Agreed, but the social engineering to get someone in the plant to pick the stick up and take it inside and then the absolute incredible detail of the virus are without parallel, as far as we know…
The virus detail seems (from what people say: you know I claim no expertise!) to be amazing. But getting the USB in, I wonder; the sticks the people I knew used had been in several instances unpacked from factory packaging and were infected ‘from birth’, like crack babies; and people in the same crew swap USBs as a matter of course. Humans being what we are the only social engineering element that surprises me is that the autistic spectrum designers of the plan weren’t quite autistic/perfectionist enough to escape detection forever. Thankfully everything has an Achilles’ heel!