The world's first cyber weapon — a software worm that infected and destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges — was ... virus which researchers later named Stuxnet. The film, which comes out ...

The worm was subsequently dubbed, ’Stuxnet’ by the security community. With a potentially limited window or ongoing success, the attacks continued and, eventually, roughly 1,000 centrifuges ...

According to the report, US experts have worked with Israeli teams testing the Stuxnet code on the same centrifuge systems as those used in Iran. "To check out the worm, you have to know the ...

“Stuxnet, Schmitt Analysis and the Cyber ‘Use of Force’ Debate”, Joint Force Quarterly, 67(4), 2012. 27. Langer, R., “To Kill a Centrifuge: A Technical Analysis of What Stuxnet’s Creators Tried to ...

The malware commonly known as ’Flame’ appears to have a common origin with the military-grade Stuxnet worm. That assessment comes from Kaspersky Labs, which has been comparing the two pieces ...

The BBC report adds that the Stuxnet worm was designed to damage motors commonly used in uranium-enrichment centrifuges by sending them spinning out of control. The sophistication of the code used ...

She goes on to explain how it was tested, saying, "in the tests we ran, we blew [the centrifuges] apart." Those tests proved accurate, with some estimates saying Stuxnet malware destroyed roughly ...

The malware targeted Siemens Step7 software, essential for controlling industrial equipment such as centrifuges used in uranium enrichment at the Natanz facility. To deploy Stuxnet, the US created ...