Malware targeting critical energy infrastructure: Did a Russian STUXNET phone home?
- barrythomaschilds
- Apr 15, 2022
- 1 min read
The nuclear age began with global blinding flashes of light and mushroom clouds towering in the upper atmosphere. The down of the atomic age was loud and clear. The dawn of the cyberweapon was noticed only by a few in the global industrial-military complex, nation-states, and security and cybersecurity professionals.
STUXNET, released in 2010 against the uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran, destroyed centrifuges and dropped enrichment production by up to 30%. Like the dawn of the atomic age, the world's governments scrambled to develop offensive cyberweapon capability and harden critical infrastructure from attack. The cyberweapon is an asymmetrical game-changer for a smaller nation-state to harass and possibly significantly degrade a superpower's capabilities.
The Russo-Ukrainian War may prompt a threat actor or aspiring nation-state to unleash hell. So the question is, did STUXNET just phone home?
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