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Reminded me of this book I very much enjoyed about Stuxnet - "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon". Stuxnet was a
by petervm 9y ago
Reminded me of this book I very much enjoyed about Stuxnet - "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon". Stuxnet was a targeted attack directed at Iran's nuclear program. Quality, not quantity indeed. Super interesting to learn about these things!
- ghrifter 9y agoWasnt this attack triggered by scattering payloaded USBs around the facility, and someone plugged it in? lol
- wand3r 9y agoStuxnet was highly targeted malware and certainly extremely sogisticated. That said, it infected probably >200,000 computer systems. To the parents point, it makes it easy to get a sample due to the volume of breaches. 100 targets with a highly covert mission objective is a different type of threat model compared to stux