Stuxnet

• Stuxnet to WannaCry—5 notorious cyberattacks that targeted governments 2024-09-22 12:11 The Print Warfare is no longer confined to physical battlefields. In the digital age, a new front has emerged – cyberspace. Here, countries clash not with bullets and bombs, but with lines of code and sophisticated malware. One of the most recent examples came to …
• Hezbollah’s Exploding Pagers Could Be As Monumental A Cyber-Espionage Operation As Stuxnet 2024-09-17 22:42 The Drive In an extraordinary development in the Middle East conflict, thousands of Hezbollah members have been injured and at least three people were killed after pagers that the militants used exploded simultaneously today. While exactly how this occurred remains …
• Stuxnet, The Malware That Propagates To Air-Gapped Networks 2024-06-19 17:26 GBHackers Stuxnet, a complex worm discovered in 2010, targeted Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems used in industrial facilities. By exploiting multiple vulnerabilities, including zero-days, it breached air-gapped networks (isolated systems) and …
• Improved, Stuxnet-Like PLC Malware Aims to Disrupt Critical Infrastructure 2024-03-05 20:24 Dark Reading The proliferation of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) with embedded Web servers in them has given attackers a way to launch potentially catastrophic, remote attacks against operational technology (OT) for industrial control systems (ICS) in critical …
• Remote Stuxnet-Style Attack Possible With Web-Based PLC Malware: Researchers 2024-03-04 14:05 SecurityWeek A team of researchers has developed malware designed to target modern programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in an effort to demonstrate that remote Stuxnet-style attacks can be launched against such industrial control systems (ICS). The researchers are …
• Between Two Nerds: Stuxnet, the inevitable game changer 2024-01-16 03:55 The Cyber Post In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how Stuxnet was an ‘inevitability gamechanger’, how much we now know about the operation and how much the Dutch government should have known at the time.
• Dutch Engineer Used Water Pump to Get Billion-Dollar Stuxnet Malware Into Iranian Nuclear Facility 2024-01-12 02:36 HITBSecNews
• Water Pump Used To Get $1 Billion Stuxnet Malware Into Iranian Nuclear Facility 2024-01-11 22:03 Slashdot An anonymous reader quotes a report from SecurityWeek.com: A Dutch engineer recruited by the country's intelligence services used a water pump to deploy the now-infamous Stuxnet malware in an Iranian nuclear facility, according to a two-year …
• Dutch Man Deployed Stuxnet via Water Pump to Disable Iran’s Nukes 2024-01-11 15:15 Hackread Investigative journalist Huib Modderkolk from Dutch national newspaper De Volkskrant uncovered that 36-year-old Dutch civil engineer Erik van Sabben played a ‘crucial role’ in a 2007 mission supported by the US and Israel. He was instrumental in deploying …
• Dutch Engineer Used Water Pump to Get Billion-Dollar Stuxnet Malware Into Iranian Nuclear Facility: Report 2024-01-10 14:20 SecurityWeek A Dutch engineer recruited by the country’s intelligence services used a water pump to deploy the now-infamous Stuxnet malware in an Iranian nuclear facility, according to a two-year investigation conducted by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. Stuxnet, whose …
• The late unmasking of the suspected Stuxnet infiltrator 2024-01-10 04:24 Breaking Latest News 26 To this day, the Stuxnet attack of 2008 is considered a masterpiece among IT attacks, and many even consider it the “first shot in the cyber war” that has been raging worldwide ever since. At that time, a specially written malware disrupted the Iranian …
• Dutch engineer spread Stuxnet in Iran nuclear plant in 2008: report 2024-01-09 00:26 iTWire A Dutchman was responsible for infecting equipment at Iran's Natanz nuclear plant in 2008 with the Stuxnet virus, leading to years of delay in the country's nuclear program, a Dutch publication, Volkskrant, claims. Erik van Sabben, who was 36 at …
• US, Israel Used Dutch Spy to Launch Stuxnet Malware Against Iran 2024-01-08 20:45 Dark Reading After a two-year investigation into the details surrounding the Stuxnet virus, unleashed in 2008 against the Iranian nuclear program, journalists with Dutch newspaper Volkskrant have released a report saying the malware cost $1 billion to develop. Besides …
• Dutch spies hid engineer’s role in Stuxnet attack on Iran 2024-01-08 16:02 The Times A Dutch engineer played the “crucial role” in a mission to sabotage Iran’s nuclear weapons programme with a sophisticated computer virus as part of a US and Israeli mission, without the knowledge of his country’s government. Erik van Sabben released the “ …
• Siemens PLCs Still Vulnerable to Stuxnet-like Cyberattacks 2023-11-30 19:33 Dark Reading Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that were vulnerable to the Stuxnet attack are still in use globally and rarely have security controls deployed — meaning they're still at risk. More than 10 years after Stuxnet, new research shows users rarely …