Stuxnet worm hits Iran nuclear plant

Israel prime suspect

BBC: A complex computer worm has infected the personal computers of staff at Iran's first nuclear power station, the official IRNA news agency reported. However, the operating system at the Bushehr plant - due to go online in a few weeks - has not been harmed, project manager Mahmoud Jafari said. The Stuxnet worm is capable of seizing control of industrial plants. Some Western experts say its complexity suggests it could only have been created by a "nation state". It is the first sign that Stuxnet, which targets systems made by the German company Siemens, has reached equipment linked to Iran's nuclear programme >>>

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Roozbeh_Gilani

David, this malware infects the system not through the web

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Sun Sep 26, 2010 08:35 PM PDT

but through any device connected to the main server on internal, -hopefully secure - net (intranet). In effect it attacks through the intranet rather than internet. Interestingly, it is dsigned to attack a unique operating system used by Siemens for their industrial control systems, which incidentally also is used at Bushehr...

 


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David ET

1 & 2

by David ET on Sun Sep 26, 2010 08:18 PM PDT

1- Nuclear plants should be completely isolated from internet anyway (for the exact same reason and dangerous consequences!)

2- Malacious worms have already taken over Iran's government for over 30 years.


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Benyamin

"siemens"

by Benyamin on Sun Sep 26, 2010 07:45 PM PDT

As far as I know, the equipments that siemens sold to Russians were contaminated and the Russians installed it in Bushehr(knowingly or not knowingly).

I truly believe iranians are smarter than Israelies, not only they(iranians) will figure this out but also will fix the problem and return the favour very soon.

Stuxnet is worm and Israelies just opened a whole new can of worm by which I amnot sure they can handle it.


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Roozbeh_Gilani

Immortal Guard: Before calling for people to be beheaded...

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Sun Sep 26, 2010 05:32 PM PDT

I think by "USB Key", the reporter means any device which can be connected through a USB port. This could also mean the USB ports internal to the sever. (remember here we are not talking only about a laptop). In a main server controlling a factory, you'd find literally hundreds of USB ports and hubs. So it'd be extremely difficult to ascertain how this virus was embeded into the systems OS or SW and by whom. possibly  it was through a piece of HW supplied to Iran.

Very clever, and I agree not an average hacker's job by any means. Israel is certainly a candidate! 


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Immortal Guard

So...

by Immortal Guard on Sun Sep 26, 2010 04:42 PM PDT

This guy is openly accusing Israel of being a terrorist state being active in the production and spread of malware for the purposes of information warfare.

But hey 2 of the 4 vulnerabilities have been fixed and the other 4 will be fixed too.

According to the report the virus has spread through a USB key. They should find a scapegoat in Iran, try him as a traitor and make an example of him so in future nobody spreads viruses any longer.


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Manam_Babak

mahmoudg

by Manam_Babak on Sun Sep 26, 2010 02:36 PM PDT

Thanks!

Couldn't have said better.


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mahmoudg

Instead of bashing the Israeli's

by mahmoudg on Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:43 PM PDT

let us try to become like them, to have 20 of the worlds most succesful software companies, traded on NASDAQ and NYSE, then you can claim all the empty rhetoric Antari_Nejad does.  Is it any wonder they will try to destroy the Iranian infrastructure run by some of the most incompetent Islamic managers on the planet?  You morons deserve whatever Israel flys down your way cyber or otherwuse, because you are weak, incapable and too Islamic. 


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