Stuxnet LNK Exploits Still Widely Circulated

One of the alleged mandates around the development of the Stuxnet worm was that malware’s numerous components—which included a handful of zero days—should never escape the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in Iran. Eight years later, evidence continues to mount as to how that mandate was...

Details Surface on Stuxnet Patch Bypass

It took 10 hours to find what had eluded others for close to five years. German computer science student Michael Heerklotz spent the Christmas holiday reading Countdown to Zero Day, a narrative on the discovery and impact of Stuxnet, the computer worm considered one of the first cyberweapons, and...

Stuxnet's First Five Victims Provided Path to Natanz

Stuxnet’s first five victims were a carefully crafted list of targets that ultimately provided the attackers with the road map they needed to get inside a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, Iran and disrupt the country’s nuclear program. Cobbled together from clues left behind by the infamous...

Stuxnet Had Older, More Complex Variant

Stuxnet was a two-headed beast as it turns out, one that could have laid waste to the Natanz nuclear facility which it infected, and one that should have, by expert accounts, remained undetected if not for the noisier yet less complex second attack routine that is now familiar to the world...

Snowden Confirms Stuxnet Malware developed by NSA and Israel Together

In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel Magazine, American whistleblower Edward Snowden has Confirmed that Stuxnet Malware was developed by NSA and Israel Together. Stuxnet made international headlines in 2010 for specifically target a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran. Stuxnet was...

Stuxnet was planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick

Stuxnet was planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick The Stuxnet computer worm used to sabotage Iran's nuclear program was planted by a double agent working for Israel. The agent used a booby-trapped memory stick to infect machines deep inside the Natanz nuclear facility, according to a...

Examining Natanz

Langner was among the first independent researchers who argued that Stuxnet was designed to attack a specific target, namely: the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz. Within recent weeks, his theory has been given a boost after the office of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad issued publicity...

UPDATE – Stuxnet Expert: Analysis Shows Design Flaw, Not Vulnerability Sunk Siemens

MIAMI–The world’s foremost expert on the Stuxnet worm said an analysis of source code for a critical component of the malware prove that Iran’s nuclear program was the target, and that attackers were able to exploit weak design in Siemens software, rather than having to exploit a software...

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks (Born : 4th Oct 2006)

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks Born : 4th Oct 2006 The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and...

Wired Unpacks Stuxnet Mystery

You might think that everything that needs to be written on Stuxnet already has. After all, Threatpost has spilled virtual column inches on the stealthy worm, which targeted Siemens Simatic S7 programmable logic controllers. That’s in addition to posts by the likes of Symantec, McAfee and the...

U.S. federal lab linked to Stuxnet breached !

A federally funded U.S. lab that is suspected to have been involved in finding the vulnerabilities in Siemens SCADA systems used by the Stuxnet worm has shut down the Internet connection for its employees following the discovery of a breach into the facility's systems. The Oak Ridge National...