Infrastructure worm targets Iran

[Osiris]

Infrastructure worm targets Iran


A new worm that has been named Stuxnet has been detected that appears to have been written specifically to attack infrastructure in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the first example of malware of this type the worm was programmed to attack power stations, water plants and industrial units. A report by the BBC has said [...]

 

[El loco]

skynet is here.
Hopefully John Conner can save us this time.

 

[Andrew1]

Wow, that sounds powerful. Any ideas on how successful the worm will be ?

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Not very, targets one country from the sounds of it, and most places that use software like that, are isolated from the internet due to those sort of attacks.

Any engineer who sets up a system like that, and enables it to connect to the internet, is an idiot.