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the first weapon made entirely of code, and it still went off with a bang.
means a computer worm built to physically wreck iranian nuclear centrifuges by lying to their control systems while they spun themselves apart.
from discovered in 2010 by security researchers, named from file text found in its code, later reported to be a joint us-israeli operation called olympic games aimed at natanz.
zero-days usedburned four windows zero-day exploits in one worm
the liefed operators fake normal readings while sabotage ran
physical damagedestroyed roughly 1000 centrifuges by spinning them wrong
leapnever officially confessed, only reported by anonymous sources
for instance
natanz facility — iran, 2009-2010, centrifuges silently tore themselves apart
siemens step7 — the industrial software stuxnet hijacked to reprogram plcs
olympic games program — reported us-israeli operation that allegedly built and deployed it
duqu and flame — related spyware families sharing code with stuxnet