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I have a question. Since the worm travels from USB to USB, does that mean that it infected thousands (or more) of regular people USBs but did nothing, until it
by Yajirobe 8y ago
I have a question. Since the worm travels from USB to USB, does that mean that it infected thousands (or more) of regular people USBs but did nothing, until it found itself in a purity facility? Or was the worm somehow directly sent (physically or digitally) to the facility?
- syeaj 8y agoIIRC, there was an agent who brought the stick into the facility. Also, read this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/11/iran-nuclear-chemist-killed https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/11/iran-nuclear-c...
- stef25 8y agoA usb drive discreetly dropped in the parking lot, labelled cat memes would probably do the trick
- baud147258 8y agoAre cat memes popular in Iran too?
- cptskippy 8y agoCat memes transcend cultural boundaries.
- baud147258 8y agoThank you, I didn't know, I haven't crossed a lot of boundaries.
- ralphhughes 8y agoYes. At the time I was a contractor in southern Azerbaijan (borders Iran) and our pendrives were infected.
- wepple 8y agoYeah, most worms like this have detective capability to work out whether they’re on the systems that they’re wanting to be on. If not, they’ll either try to clean up and vanish or just serve for further propagation. Stuxnet was discovered because it accidentally spread too far, and ended up on a malware analysts desk. There was a targeted supplier, an upstream vendor as the insertion point, but it spread outside of that chain.