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How did all the information leak about this? Was it just from people reverse engineering it, or were there leaks from intelligence agencies?
by jonplackett 7y ago
How did all the information leak about this?
Was it just from people reverse engineering it, or were there leaks from intelligence agencies?
- roddie 7y agoThere's an incredible book by Kim Zetter called Countdown to Zero Day which is indispensable for anyone interested in Stuxnet: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-zero-day https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18465875-countdown-to-ze...
- nodesocket 7y agoThere is also a great documentary on Hulu called Zero Days[1] that is fantastic about Stuxnet. Highly recommended. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Days https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Days
- swatkat 7y agoStuxnet was discovered by Belarusian antivirus expert Sergey Ulasen, who was working for Belarusian antivirus company VirusBlokAda. Later, he moved to Kaspersky. This is how it was discovered: "It all started when the technical support guys informed me about a rather unusual case: a customer in Iran reported arbitrary BSODs and computer reboots. They forwarded me the help-request together with info about their preliminary scanning reports." Read the amazing interview here: https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-stuxnet-sergey-ulasen-in-the-spotlight/ https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-st...