How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History


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Very nice story, ciberwar is emerging more and more these days and I'm astonished how difficult is to identify military-class malicious codes. More shocking is that all four zero-day sploits used by the malware was public but yet not patched by Microsoft. Maybe MS could offer some reward to those who identify sploits to increase early direct reports.

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Wow!  In the second half of the 1980s, and early 1990s, I was involved in building , programming and installing Siemens 5 series PLCs, using Step5.  We were also producing hardware which would facilitate networking and PC interfacing of the PLCs.

 

They've obviously moved on a couple of generations to Series 7 and Step7, but the STL code snippets still look familiar.

 

However, as the article mentions, you do need a detailed knowledge about the configuration and programing of the particular implementation in order to do anything of this nature.  The creators/perpetrators of StuxNet must have had a mole within the control system development team.

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