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Apparently, Israelis thought up of something brand-new.
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Originally Posted by Ramil

Apparently, Israelis thought up of something brand-new.
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Wow! Never heard of it before. So, is it going to be like another MOO ("An unknown virus has struck the research database destroying X points of research data and it might take years to recover?)

Originally Posted by Crocodile

Wow! Never heard of it before. So, is it going to be like another MOO ("An unknown virus has struck the research database destroying X points of research data and it might take years to recover?)

It's too sophisticated to be just an ordinary virus. It is targeted at 'patterns' of specific instruction sets (though it's difficult to determine the target by reverse-engineering, specialists agree that it was specifically targeted at only some industrial equipment. It used two stolen (!) digital sertificates of known maufacturers (I heard of Realtek Semiconductors) to embed itself into the target machine and finally -- by the number of infected machines, many specialists concluded that target might be not the power plant, but the uranium enrichment facility.
(There are rumors that at least something had happenned there that disrupted the production).

It's a weapon grade, 2nd generation computer virus. It can even kill people. Here's some more:
Stuxnet: война 2.0 / Информационная безопасность / Хабрахабр
e_kaspersky - Торжественная речь по случаю...
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