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Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network
#19114627 - 11/10/13 12:20 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://thehackernews.com/2013/11/stuxnet-also-infected-internal-network.html
Discuss:
Personally, I think this is bad news. The way Stuxnet works is absolutely incredibly, and very well engineered. I'm thoroughly impressed with the amount of work that went into it, but this is also a very bad thing.
It is a virus that can cause serious damage to the nuclear facilities of other nuclear power plants, and could be adapted to compromise other systems like Auto Manufacturing plants.
Now that it's infected two systems, I don't think this will be the last we hear of it.
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Re: Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network [Re: deadwk]
#19114682 - 11/10/13 12:32 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Wow, this is really interesting shit. Thanks for the heads up.
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Re: Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network [Re: The Vapor]
#19114760 - 11/10/13 12:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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No problem! Yea it's incredibly interesting, and also a bit terrifying.
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Re: Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network [Re: deadwk]
#19185167 - 11/25/13 12:22 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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It sounds like they are getting ready to start WW-3.
One nasty keyhole it could exploit is the IRDA linking equipment used with remote monitoring dosimeters of employees or sentinal points in nuke plants. One person who has ill will can simply beam the virus in without even the need for thumb drive or other direct wire access. A bit slow, but doable...
Paranoid enough yet?
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Re: Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network [Re: deadwk]
#19195320 - 11/27/13 07:44 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Stuxnet Quote:
thedeadwalkk said: http://thehackernews.com/2013/11/stuxnet-also-infected-internal-network.html
Discuss:
Personally, I think this is bad news. The way Stuxnet works is absolutely incredibly, and very well engineered. I'm thoroughly impressed with the amount of work that went into it, but this is also a very bad thing.
It is a virus that can cause serious damage to the nuclear facilities of other nuclear power plants, and could be adapted to compromise other systems like Auto Manufacturing plants.
Now that it's infected two systems, I don't think this will be the last we hear of it.
It's state sponsored malware, and the sponsorship ran into the millions. Two 0 day expoits, designed to cross air-gapped networks, targeted at very specific hardware in very specific locations. As a piece of malware, it's incredible - as a government weapon, it's fairly trivial (I'd be quite certain that the powers that be hold much more powerful malware back, ready for use in emergency).
The control system hack is now patched I believe, so there's little likleyhood of this particular bit of code making it's way into industrial sabotage. However, manufacturing facilities are very lax when it comes to control system security - I've seen companies that have banned removable media from desktop PC's for security, yet run unsecured wifi for control systems! Imagine that! A company 100% pop ups free, yet open to having it's entire factory firmware wiped by a laptop on the road outside the factory.
This kind of sabotage must be ready to rise, because as you've rightly said, it's value/potential harm runs into the billions. Adjust the torque calibration settings on a vehicle assembly plant without being noticed, then sit back and chuckle when your competitor has to issue recall after recall. Create an intermittent "fault" on a critical machine to harm production efficiency, reset machine access codes, alter motor speeds, alter timings, adjust tracking systems...
Stuxnet was designed for a specific task, and has completed it's task - I'd say we have seen the last of it. I'd agree that we haven't seen the end of this kind of malware though.
Interesting stuff though - and maybe the next big area of electronic/IT security.
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Re: Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network [Re: Guy1980]
#19197127 - 11/27/13 04:01 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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i thought hackers just did this shit to show exploits in security... why would a hacker WANT to disrupt shit? just for luls? i don't get it.
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Re: Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network [Re: akira_akuma]
#19199322 - 11/28/13 04:16 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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gib moni or i melt reactor lel
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Re: Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network [Re: Dawks]
#19199423 - 11/28/13 05:38 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't think the writers of Stuxnet had any intention of making money from it - in fact it almost certainly cost them a few million.
IIRC a US govt. official has tacitly admitted to creating Stuxnet, and it's widely believed the Israeli security forces were involved.
So guess for yourself why the US and Israel would like to damage an Iranian uranium enrichment facility.
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Re: Stuxnet infects Russian Nuclear Power Plant Network [Re: akira_akuma]
#19200330 - 11/28/13 11:24 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
akira_akuma said: i thought hackers just did this shit to show exploits in security... why would a hacker WANT to disrupt shit? just for luls? i don't get it.
it was made to disrupt irans nuclear program. it ruined their enrichment equipment while having the system report every thing was fine and made giant piles of useless uranium that they thought was weapons grade.
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