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These latest attacks come 15 years after Israel mounted an intelligence operation that inserted a worm called Stuxnet into the software at Natanz that controlled the centrifuge cascades. The operation destroyed approximately 1 000 centrifuges at the facility.

 

Stuxnet discovered in 2010 was the first malware proven to cause physical damage to industrial equipment. It infiltrated Microsoft Windows systems tied to Iran?s uranium-enrichment program then sabotaged Siemens Step7 programmable-logic controllers (PLCs) that managed the centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant.

 

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm that became infamous in its use to attack Iranian nuclear facilities. That attack made global news headlines in 2010 when it was first discovered.

 

What is Stuxnet? Stuxnet is a powerful computer worm designed by U.S. and Israeli intelligence that to disable a key part of the Iranian nuclear program.

 

What is Stuxnet? Stuxnet is a worm ?a type of malware that is self-replicating and spreads across computer networks without the need for human intervention. It was discovered in 2010 but is believed to have been in operation for several years prior to that.

 

A number of folks have claimed that Stuxnet is a virus while it is a type of worm. These two are types of Malware that have the ability to delete data and while a virus may be powerful a computer worm is way more powerful.

 

What is Stuxnet malware? Stuxnet is a sophisticated highly targeted computer worm that was first discovered in 2010. Unlike traditional malware its primary purpose was sabotaging physical systems specifically targeting industrial control systems like centrifuges in nuclear facilities.

 

Stuxnet a computer worm discovered in June 2010 that was specifically written to take over certain programmable industrial control systems and cause the equipment run by those systems to malfunction while feeding false data to systems monitors indicating the equipment to be running as intended.

 

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm first uncovered on 17 June 2010 [2] and thought to have been in development since at least 2005.