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There is no comparison. Stuxnet "worked by first causing an infected Iranian IR-1 centrifuge to increase from its normal operating speed of 1,064 hertz to 1,41
by jjk166 6y ago
There is no comparison.
Stuxnet "worked by first causing an infected Iranian IR-1 centrifuge to increase from its normal operating speed of 1,064 hertz to 1,410 hertz for 15 minutes before returning to its normal frequency. Twenty-seven days later, the worm went back into action, slowing the infected centrifuges down to a few hundred hertz for a full 50 minutes. The stresses from the excessive, then slower, speeds caused the aluminium centrifugal tubes to expand, often forcing parts of the centrifuges into sufficient contact with each other to destroy the machine."
The solar winds hack is an otherwise unremarkable trojan that spread exclusively due to the bad security measures of solarwinds.
- hayst4ck 6y agoStuxnet is a well understood attack from 10 years ago and its being compared with a poorly understood attack from 1 year ago. >The solar winds hack is an otherwise unremarkable trojan that spread exclusively due to the bad security measures of solarwinds. We don't have sufficient information to say what happened after the trojan landed is unsophisticated. All we have is the idea that microsoft benefits from making their attacker seem more competent than they are, which is true.
- jjk166 6y agoSure, we could learn that they did something really impressive with the solarwinds hack that we have no idea about right now, and at that time it might be reasonable to compare it to stuxnet. The same could be said of any hack. However right now there is no evidence of sophistication anywhere near that scale, and thus calling it the largest and most sophisticated attack is clearly unwarranted, at least at this time.