Stuxnet 'Cyber Superweapon' Moves To China

Stuxnet 'cyber superweapon' moves to China

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The Stuxnet computer worm has wreaked havoc in China, infecting millions of...

A computer virus dubbed the world's "first cyber superweapon" by experts and which may have been designed to attack Iran's nuclear facilities has found a new target -- China.
The Stuxnet computer worm has wreaked havoc in China, infecting millions of computers around the country, state media reported this week.

Stuxnet is feared by experts around the globe as it can break into computers that control machinery at the heart of industry, allowing an attacker to assume control of critical systems

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A top US cybersecurity official said last week that the country was analysing the computer worm but did not know who was behind it or its purpose.

"One of our hardest jobs is attribution and intent," Sean McGurk, director of the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC), told reporters in Washington

Another unnamed expert at Rising International said the attacks had so far infected more than six million individual accounts and nearly 1,000 corporate accounts around the country, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The Stuxnet computer worm -- a piece of malicious software (malware) which copies itself and sends itself on to other computers in a network -- was first publicly identified in June.

It was found lurking on Siemens systems in India, Indonesia, Pakistan and elsewhere, but the heaviest infiltration appears to be in Iran, according to software security researchers

JBA2848 has an excellent thread in the Conspriacy forum.


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China will win the Cyber war.

That is my two cents in regards to this news.

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Wait until the internet becomes self aware and writes its own malwear
That'll be fun.

has anyone considered that stuxnet came out shortly before the latest edition of the classified but still public operation cyber storm 3? and the US won't confirm or deny its involvement with stuxnet,

also, it saddens me that so many people are so quick to discount the US as a true leader in defense tech. including cyber warfare. we spend more money on it than any other country on earth.
consider for a moment the sr-71. the blackbird is not only a truly beautiful plane its also still the worlds fastest. (that's admitted to) and its quickly coming up on 50 years since its development. the US is just the only global powerhouse that admits its failures and denies its successes.

looking at this near perfect, mutating, self replicating computer virus, designed to work on siemans computers... that's rather interesting on its own. Is it wrong to consider that a virus meant to cripple offshore oil rigs (which our president clearly hates) shows up shortly after a pair of oil rig disasters (on notoriously safe rigs) suddenly shows up on the computers of the iranian power plant, another thorn in the flesh of the american governement, then turns its eyes toward china? sure, maybe its just coinsidence, but I think there's another possibility worthy of consideration. that we are baring witness to one facet of the next generation of U.S. military technology. and if the latter is true, God bless them for it.

First cyber superweapon wreaks havoc on computers in China

The Stuxnet computer virus has been labelled as the world's "first cyber superweapon." It is speculated that it was first designed to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. However, it has found its way to millions of computers in China. Imagine a computer virus that allows the hacker full access of critical systems. The virus can literally make factory boilers explode or make a nuclear power plant malfunction. Experts now fear that the Stuxnet computer worm has infected millions of computers around China, according to Agence-France Presse. The Stuxnet virus – malware that copies itself and sends itself onto other computers on a network – was originally designed to sabotage plants and attack industrial systems. It is believed that it was first designed to be used as an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Instead, the worm may now obliterate China’s national security because industries may collapse. According to an anonymous expert at Rising International, more than 6 million individual accounts and approximately 1,000 corporate accounts have been infected. However, an analyst at China Information Technology Security Evaluation Centre, Yu Xiaoqu, said that there has yet been any damage inflicted by the virus. Read more: www.digitaljournal.com...

Did the Stuxnet worm kill India's INSAT-4B satellite?

On July 7, 2010, a power glitch in the solar panels of India’s INSAT-4B satellite resulted in 12 of its 24 transponders shutting down. As a result, an estimated 70% of India’s Direct-To-Home (DTH) companies’ customers were without service. India’s DTH operators include Sun TV and state-run Doordarshan and data services of Tata VSNL. INSAT-4B was put into orbit in March, 2007 by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), which conducts research and develops space technology for the government of India. It is also the agency which controls and monitors India’s satellites and space vehicles while they are operational. Once it became apparent that INSAT-4B was effectively dead, SunDirect ordered its servicemen to redirect customer satellite dishes to point to ASIASAT-5, a Chinese satellite owned and operated by Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co., Ltd (AsiaSat). AsiaSat’s two primary shareholders are General Electric and China International Trust and Investment Co. (CITIC), a state-owned company. China and India are competing with each other to see who will be the first to land another astronaut on the Moon. China has announced a date of 2025 while India is claiming 2020.

Psst! Wanna buy a dangerous security hack?

A cyber worm experts believe was designed to knock out Iran's nuclear facilities has the security industry seeing red -- and rightly so. Replicating the virus would be easy, say experts, thanks to an easily accessible black market for destructive programming code. Databases of such code that exploits security flaws are common on the Internet. Some are run by businesses as a research tool, such as eEye.com's Zero Day Tracker, intended to catalog the severity of vulnerabilities and promote awareness. "Hacktivists" gather on others, such as inj3ct0r. But there's another source of these hacks, one far more malicious. Jay Bavisi, president of security firm EC-Council, told FoxNews.com that cybercriminals who intend to write similar worms can buy code on an open black market that exploits security flaws not listed in those databases -- code snippets that are retailed to the highest bidder. "It's like eBay for hackers," Bavisi told FoxNews.com. Most security experts believes a country released the Stuxnet worm to attack Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant, be it China, Israel, Russia or even the U.S. But whoever they were, the worm's author could have bought the code that made it function on the black market, said Gerry Egan, director of Symantec's Security Response team.

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I think wars should take place in the manner that we saw at the end of the movie Spies like us

All parties involved sitting down to a friendly game of risk.

I am kind of curious as to how this thing spreads like it does.

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i have spoken of this issue in this thread

WW3 in October ?!?!

China will be very pissed at this ... and will go after who created that worm
Mossad is the prime suspect .. for releasing that virus on Iran first

Haha, and everyone already knows Israel probably created it.

I wonder how this will play out for the Israelis once they get pegged for it.

China has a middle class now (tv, toaster, pc, food), wait until they start getting hurt by this and becoming vocal.

People will Demand that the perps be held accountable or punished.

China strong.

Originally posted by Ben81
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i have spoken of this issue in this thread

WW3 in October ?!?!

China will be very pissed at this ... and will go after who created that worm
Mossad is the prime suspect .. for releasing that virus on Iran first

Just because a word was found in the virus that would implicate a Israel, doesnt mean it was Israel that created and unleashed the virus. The question is would they be that stupid to include a reference that would implicate them?

False Flag maybe?

Not saying its not true, but it seems counterproductive.