Stuxnet - probably the best piece of malware in the world

[wvw]

Stuxnet exploited not just one zero-day Windows bug but four -- an unprecedented number for a single piece of malware.

Researchers studying the worm all agree that Stuxnet was built by a very sophisticated and capable attacker -- possibly a nation state -- and it was designed to destroy something big.

Iranian government representatives did not return messages seeking comment for this story, but sources within the country say that Iran has been hit hard by the worm. When it was first discovered, 60 percent of the infected Stuxnet computers were located in Iran, according to Symantec.

Experts had first thought that Stuxnet was written to steal industrial secrets -- factory formulas that could be used to build counterfeit products. But Langner found something quite different. The worm actually looks for very specific Siemens settings -- a kind of fingerprint that tells it that it has been installed on a very specific Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) device -- and then it injects its own code into that system.

The problem is not Stuxnet. Stuxnet is history. The problem is the next generation of malware that will follow.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/the_stuxnet_wor.html

Vremuri interesante.

Edited September 22, 2010 by wvw

[B7ackAnge7z]

Exact acum citeam: Stuxnet Bug Targets Iranian Power Plant

Edited September 22, 2010 by B7ackAnge7z

[wvw]

?i în continuare, Bruce Schneier le spune pe bune

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/10/stuxnet.html