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...

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...

Researchers Find Stuxnet Older Than Previously Believed

Researchers on Tuesday said they have proof the Stuxnet worm used to cripple Iran’s nuclear program has been in the wild two years longer than first believed. There’s also now evidence the military-grade malware’s origins date back to 2005, and possibly earlier. According to an 18-page report,...

Stuxnet is Back ! Iran reported another cyber attack

Iran claims to have repelled a fresh cyber attack on its industrial units in a southern province. In the last few years, various Iranian industrial, nuclear and government bodies have recently come under growing cyber attacks, widely believed to be designed and staged by the US and Israel. A powe...

More Flame Modules Could Be Lurking

BROOKLYN, NY–After years of research and investigation into the cyber-espionage attacks that began with the discovery of Stuxnet and continued with Flame, Duqu and Gauss, there still are many details that are unknown. While researchers have a pretty good handle on many of the tools’ capabilities,...

Former NSA Director Calls Stuxnet "Good Idea"

Former National Security Agency NSA Director Ret. General Michael Hayden called the sabotaging of Iran’s nuclear program with Stuxnet a “good idea” during an interview with ‘60 Minutes.’ Hayden served as NSA director from 1999 to 2005, and was also director of the CIA from 2006-2009. During the...

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...

Report: French Nuclear Company Areva Hit by Virus

French nuclear power group Areva was the target of a cyber attack in September, according to a recent post on the website of French business magazine L’Expansion. There were conflicting reports about the incident, which raises the specter of nation-backed spying. Some accounts, including one from...

Report: Obama Administration Considered Libyan Cyber-Offensive

The Obama Administration reportedly debated kicking off its latest war-effort in Libya with a cyber-offensive targeting the Qaddafi regime’s air-defense infrastructure, according to a report from the New York Times. The details of the Obama Administration’s plan remain classified, but the Times...

Report: Iran Resorts to Rip And Replace To Kill Off Stuxnet

HED:Report: Iran resorting to rip and replace to kill off Stuxnet infections DEK: Reports that Iran had recovered from the infection of the Stuxnet worm may have been overblown, as a new report suggests the country is being forced to replace thousands of expensive centrifuges damanged by the worm...

Siemens Assisted with Stuxnet's Development, claimed by Iran !

Siemens Assisted with Stuxnet's Development, claimed by Iran ! A senior Iranian official accuses Siemens of willingly assisting the Stuxnet creators by providing the source code necessary for them to exploit its software. Iran's state news agency, the Islamic Republic News Service IRNA, quotes...

NY Times: Stuxnet Traced to Five Iranian Internet Domains

The Stuxnet Worm attempted to infiltrate five industrial complexes in Iran over a span of ten months according to a report in the New York Times based on a Stuxnet Dossier published by Symantec. Stuxnet was designed to not only attack industrial control systems built by Siemens Corporation, which...

Expert: Stuxnet Just Latest in U.S. Hacks of Covert Nuke Programs

CORRECTION: This article originally included the incorrect name for an associate of A.Q. Khan. The correct name of the associate is “Friedrich Tinner,” a Swiss nuclear engineer. The name has been corrected in the article. The author of a new book on the evolution of the world’s first nuclear blac...

New York Times: Stuxnet A Joint US-Israeli Operation

Details of the Stuxnet worm’s origins and functioning have been seeping into the media, tidbit by intriguing tidbit, since last Summer, when news of the worm went mainstream. But a new exclusive from the New York Times breaks the Stuxnet story wide open, confirming oft-cited theories that it was ...

Symantec: Stuxnet Likely Targeted Uranium Enrichment Systems

Symantec’s not saying that the Stuxnet worm was a state-sponsored creation designed to take out the centrifuges that power Iran’s controversial uranium enrichment program. The company’s just saying that if someone can come up with another explanation that pieces together the latest analysis of th...