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...
Stuxnet сократил количество рабочих центрифуг в Иране



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