[cryptome] Re: (Times of Israel) Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station (fwd)
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Tomasz Rola wrote, On 12/11/2013 23:41:
> Hi,
>
> I guess this is news? They say it happened few years ago, but I see it
> being reported right now.
>
> Regards,
> Tomasz Rola
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> * Tuesday, November 12, 2013
> * Kislev 9, 5774
> * 12:43 am IST
> * Site updated 2 minutes ago
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> Stuxnet, gone rogue, hit Russian nuke plant, space station
>
> A cyber-security expert says several ostensibly secure facilities became
> victims of the virus that struck Iran's nuclear program
>
> By [30]David Shamah November 11, 2013, 4:21 pm
>
> [36]Eugene Kaspersky (Photo credit: Courtesy Tel Aviv University)
> Eugene Kaspersky (Photo credit: Courtesy Tel Aviv University)
>
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> A Russian nuclear power plant was reportedly "badly infected" by the
> rogue Stuxnet virus, the same malware that reportedly disrupted Iran's
> nuclear program several years ago. The virus then spread to the
> International Space Station via a Stuxnet-infected USB stick
> transported by Russian cosmonauts.
>
> Speaking to journalists in Canberra, Australia, last week, Eugene
> Kaspersky, head of the anti-virus and cyber protection firm that bears
> his name, said he had been tipped off about the damage by a friend who
> works at the Russian plant.
>
> Kaspersky did not say when the attacks took place, but implied that
> they occurred around the same time the Iranian infection was reported.
> He also did not comment on the impact of the infections on either the
> nuclear plant or the space station, but did say that the latter
> facility had been attacked several times.
>
> The revelation came during a question-and-answer period after a
> presentation on cyber-security. The point, Kaspersky told reporters at
> Australia's National Press Club last week, was that not being
> connected to the Internet -- the public web cannot be accessed at
> either the nuclear plant or on the ISS -- is a guarantee that systems
> will remain safe. The identity of the entity that released Stuxnet
> into the "wild" is still unknown (although media speculation insists
> it was developed by Israel and the United States), but those who think
> they can control a released virus are mistaken, Kaspersky warned.
> "What goes around comes around," Kaspersky said. "Everything you do
> will boomerang."
>
> The Stuxnet virus came to light in 2010, having attacked Iranian
> nuclear facilities by hitting the programmable logic control
> automation systems that control them. The PLC system, manufactured by
> German conglomerate Siemens, runs the centrifuges used to enrich
> uranium at Iran's Natanz facility. Variants of Stuxnet have affected
> the facility's centrifuges in various ways, mostly by changing the
> activity of valves controlled by the PLC software that feed the
> uranium to centrifuges at a specific rate required for enrichment,
> Kaspersky said in several presentations last year.
>
> It's not known when Stuxnet began its activities, but researchers at
> anti-virus company Symantec said that they had gathered evidence that
> earlier versions of the code were already seen "in the wild" in 2005,
> although it wasn't yet operational as a virus. Stuxnet, said Symantec,
> was the first virus known to attack national infrastructure projects,
> and according to the company, the groups behind Stuxnet were already
> seeking to compromise Iran's nuclear program in 2007 -- the year
> Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, where much of the country's uranium
> enrichment is taking place, went online.
>
> Now that the plague has been unleashed, said Kaspersky, no one is
> immune -- and that includes its originators, who are no longer in
> control of it. "There are no borders" in cyberspace, and no one should
> be surprised at any reports of a virus attack, no matter how
> ostensibly secure the facility, he said.
>
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