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I'd argue Stuxnet was a pretty major one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet Between 2005 and 2010 the US military wro
by cecilpl2 5y ago
I'd argue Stuxnet was a pretty major one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Between 2005 and 2010 the US military wrote a virus that destroyed many of Iran's uranium-enriching centrifuges. It featured Windows 0-days, infected USB flash drives, a rootkit, and was self-replicating once it crossed the airgap. Once it found the target machine, it would send malicious signals to the PLC causing the centrifuge to spin too fast.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoI'd concur. Stuxnet truly created infrastructure attacks as a design goal of malware. The US has only itself to blame for placing direct damage to physical assets in play for cyber warfare.
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoThe NSA and Israeli Unit 8200 wrote Stuxnet, over the course of years, with multiple beta versions released to the wild before its "final version", where upon its release, the most sophisticated and arguably dangerous worm written was open sourced for any nation state actor to modify and use for their own nefarious purposes*
- samstave 5y agoStuxnet, to this day, is utterly amazing.... The docu from microsoft team on it was very interesting to listen to... Whats amazing, is that DUQU, stuxnets 'brother' was also ultra-zero-day and super complex... Its super cyberpunk, that entire story...