Stuxnet Worm.

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One of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever detected was probably targeting "high value" infrastructure in Iran, experts have told the BBC.

Stuxnet's complexity suggests it could only have been written by a "nation state", some researchers have claimed.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11388018


I think it could be possibly 1 of 3 things.

1) china is having abit of practice on iran before it attempts creating more complex worms on bigger fish like the power grids of western nations etc.

2) The USA trying to disrupt irans nuclear program for obvious reasons.

3 ) And the one i believe... Its SKYNET!

23/09/2010 skynet targets Iranian nuclear plants due to security flaws .

01/01/2012 Skynet launches Iranian nuclear bombs at USA and Russia... Judgment day.

your guys thoughts?
 
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China's been spying using electronic means for decades... Having a play with a country like Iran makes sense - what's the comeback if caught at it?
 
Probably the Chinese or the Americans (both have the capabilities). Not so sure on Chinese motives, the reasoning is quite bottom of the barrel-esq to detract from the latter who does have an obvious one (as above).
 
some researchers
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Well if some nameless researchers say then who am i to argue.

Although the people who are willing to put their names and reputations out there say

However, Mr O'Murchu and others, such as security expert Bruce Schneier, have said that there was currently not enough evidence to draw conclusions about what its intended target was or who had written it.
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Greenlizard0 said:
You can surely understand (irrespective of evidence currently available) why some people taking that stance would want to remain anonymous?
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Actually it seems a mangling of a quote by

said Ralph Langner, an industrial computer expert in an analysis he published on the web.

"This is not some hacker sitting in the basement of his parents' house. To me, it seems that the resources needed to stage this attack point to a nation state," he wrote.
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Its an impressive code, that much has to be said and also a frightening prospect if things like that actually gete through the systems and cause real damage.
 
physichull said:
Its an impressive code, that much has to be said and also a frightening prospect if things like that actually gete through the systems and cause real damage.
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He also said that according to global security standards, Microsoft software "may not be used to operate critical processes in plants".
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seems it's only a problem in iran as they're using windows in places it shouldn't be along with a pirate copy of Siemens control software :p
 
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