• Stuxnet, gone rogue, hits Russian nuke plant and infects International Space Station
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[url="http://www.timesofisrael.com/stuxnet-gone-rogue-hit-russian-nuke-plant-space-station/"]Times of Israel[/url] [url="http://www.jpost.com/International/Stuxnet-has-infected-Russian-nuclear-plant-and-International-Space-Station-331476"]Jerusalem Post[/url] [url="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/521246/20131111/international-space-station-infected-malware-russian-astronaut.htm"]IB Times[/url] [img]http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2013/11/11/427945.jpg[/img] [quote]Web security expert says had tip off about malware that originally targeted Iran's nuclear program. An internet security specialist says that Stuxnet, the computer malware that targeted Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010 and widely attributed to Israel and the US, has spiraled out of control and attacked a Russian nuclear plant and the International Space Station. The virus "badly infected" the network of the Russian plant plant, Eugene Kaspersky, the head of the Kaspersky Lab internet security company, told reporters at a conference in Canberra, Australia last week. Kaspersky said he had been tipped off about the leak by a technician at the Russian plant. "[T]heir nuclear plant network which was disconnected from the internet ... was badly infected by Stuxnet," Kaspersky was quoted as saying by Australia's SC Magazine. Kaspersky also told his audience that the malware [B]was later transported by Russian astronauts to the space station on a USB stick.[/B] The sophisticated Stuxnet worm was estimated to have set Iran’s nuclear program back by two years, after it was discovered in June 2010 to have attacked computers at the Islamic Republic's plant in Natanz. [/quote] A nuclear plant network and the ISS? Damn Stuxnet you feisty.
God damnit Mossad
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;42841354]A nuclear plant network and the ISS? Damn Stuxnet you feisty.[/QUOTE]This will be part of the plot for a Call of Duty game I'm sure. "Lieutenant Sergeant Commander Johnson! You have to get to the station immediately before the virus is uploaded or the nuclear weapons hidden inside will blow up freedom!"
Well gee, isn't that grand. Damnit Stuxnet!
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;42841354]A nuclear plant network and the ISS? Damn Stuxnet you feisty.[/QUOTE] Did it actually attack the nuclear plant and the ISS or did it simply infect and then sit there dormant? Stuxnet was designed to attack only a specific set of hardware, other than that it would just simply infect and spread without actually doing any damage.
Dude I'd love to have an inactive stuxnet sample for my zoo... It'd be like, my prized sample.
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;42841538]Dude I'd love to have an inactive stuxnet sample for my zoo... It'd be like, my prized sample.[/QUOTE]good job, you'd be the source of the infamous Second Outbreak
[QUOTE=Zenreon117;42841354]was later transported by Russian astronauts to the space station on a USB stick. [/QUOTE] That's quite a silly vulenrability. Wouldn't they check something like that before launch? Or is Stuxnet just THAT good?
[QUOTE=BAZ;42841525]Did it actually attack the nuclear plant and the ISS or did it simply infect and then sit there dormant? Stuxnet was designed to attack only a specific set of hardware, other than that it would just simply infect and spread without actually doing any damage.[/QUOTE] I'm not sure, but there is this; [quote]Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky has also told journalists that the infamous Stuxnet had infected an unnamed Russian nuclear plant and that in terms of cyber-espionage "all the data is stolen globally... at least twice."[/quote]
This sounds like a story line for a Call of Duty game.
oh fuck that thing better not get into the solar pannel controls, those things need to spin in the right direction else the station could crash, also if that gets into the reaction wheels itd be beyond bad, the station could overheat, flip in the wrong direction, or damage itself. i doubt though the ISS is built so integrated though, most of the systems are probably isolated
[QUOTE=Sableye;42841612]oh fuck that thing better not get into the solar pannel controls, those things need to spin in the right direction else the station could crash, also if that gets into the reaction wheels itd be beyond bad, the station could overheat, flip in the wrong direction, or damage itself. i doubt though the ISS is built so integrated though, most of the systems are probably isolated[/QUOTE] That has a 0% chance of happening. Those systems are so heavily isolated and likely aren't even connected to machines running a normal OS.
Carried into space huh? It's Wintermute, calling it now. Damnit Kuang!
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;42841498]This will be part of the plot for a Call of Duty game I'm sure. "Lieutenant Sergeant Commander Johnson! You have to get to the station immediately before the virus is uploaded or the nuclear weapons hidden inside will blow up freedom!"[/QUOTE] [sp]Captain Price blows it up in MW2[/sp]
Fuck your ass Israel.
Create a stronger worm to kill this worm
[QUOTE=SuddenImpact;42841909]Fuck your ass Israel.[/QUOTE] It was made by the United States.
I remember hearing about this. It spreads really easily among windows computers and then...sabotages any uranium centrifuges you might have connected. Watch out guys.
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;42841999]It's a vicious cycle.[/QUOTE] He who fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become one.
Stuxnet sounds like some super villain weapon. Infecting every computer in the world.
So it infected the ISS? Meaning it can bring the station down?
[QUOTE=Splarg!;42842300]I remember hearing about this. It spreads really easily among windows computers and then...sabotages any uranium centrifuges you might have connected. Watch out guys.[/QUOTE]What was the one that kept causing their computers to play Thunderstruck really loud? I absolutely would love to infect a computer with that one. Like, just take it to a local public school or something. "Alright, today we'll be covering cellular reprod-" "Thunder!"
[QUOTE=galaxy366;42842493]So it infected the ISS? Meaning it can bring the station down?[/QUOTE]It's incredibly unlikely NASA uses Windows to control mission-critical systems on the ISS.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42842533]It's incredibly unlikely NASA uses Windows to control mission-critical systems on the ISS.[/QUOTE]And has Iranian nuclear centrifuges on board.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;42842546]And has Iranian nuclear centrifuges on board.[/QUOTE] [I]it's the last place the Americans would ever think to look[/I]
I remember this virus, it infected nuclear power plants in the US a while ago. Would randomly force the computers to play ACDC songs.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42842533]It's incredibly unlikely NASA uses Windows to control mission-critical systems on the ISS.[/QUOTE] Yup, they completely dumped all Windows products on the ISS, mostly for Debian.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;42842533]It's incredibly unlikely NASA uses Windows to control mission-critical systems on the ISS.[/QUOTE] Wasn't stuxnet nasty in that it actually targeted hardware and embedded software more than the OS on top of it? That said, if I recall, it was fairly specifically designed to act on a certain set of hardware and had attacks against that. Against any other it wouldn't do anything. Unless the virus hasn't gone rogue and instead someone modified it.
What exactly is Stuxnet? I've searching it up but it's either too in depth or not in depth enough. Who created it and why?
[QUOTE=lapsus_;42841972]Create a stronger worm to kill this worm[/QUOTE] -And what would happen after the stronger worm invades us? -We release the stronger worm eating troyans -And what after they invade us? -That's the wonderful part, the worm eating troyans will die by themselves and we will free once again.
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