#fast16 — Public Fediverse posts
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"Researchers have confirmed that a remarkable piece of malware discovered years ago but analyzed only recently was designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations with the aim of undermining those tests and slowing the progress of a nuclear program. The new information, from researchers at the security firm Symantec, confirms what has only previously been speculated about the code by the company that first discovered it — SentinelOne.
The malicious code, known as Fast16, was designed to subvert at least two specialized software programs that were commonly used for simulating weapons explosions at the time the code was active in 2005. It cleverly swapped out legitimate data produced by the simulation software, replacing it with false data that was fed to engineers monitoring those simulated tests. Specifically, it waited until the simulation neared the point of “supercriticality,” when the chain reaction leading to a nuclear explosion would begin, and altered data pertaining to the pressure inside the uranium core to indicate to engineers that the pressure was insufficient to achieve supercriticality, even though the real data showed otherwise.
This appears to have been aimed at tricking the engineers into believing the tests were less successful than they actually were, in order create confusion and slow the progress of the nuclear program Fast16 was targeting.
Nuclear experts say that based on details contained in the code and the period in which it was active, they are certain the target was Iran’s nuclear weapons program."
#CyberSecurity #StateHacking #Malware #Fast16 #Iran #NuclearWeapons
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🔐 Fast16 ritorna: il misterioso sabotaggio pre-Stuxnet che ci fa riflettere sulla sicurezza digitale. Come proteggere i nostri dati? #Cybersicurezza #Fast16
🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/fast16-sabotaggio-prima-di-stuxnet
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🔐 Fast16 ritorna: il misterioso sabotaggio pre-Stuxnet che ci fa riflettere sulla sicurezza digitale. Come proteggere i nostri dati? #Cybersicurezza #Fast16
🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/fast16-sabotaggio-prima-di-stuxnet
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🔐 Fast16 ritorna: il misterioso sabotaggio pre-Stuxnet che ci fa riflettere sulla sicurezza digitale. Come proteggere i nostri dati? #Cybersicurezza #Fast16
🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/fast16-sabotaggio-prima-di-stuxnet
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Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years
https://hackingpassion.com/fast16-pre-stuxnet-cyber-sabotage/
#HackerNews #Fast16 #Cyberweapon #Stuxnet #Cybersecurity #Hacking #News
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"In the history of state-sponsored hacking, the spectrum of cyber operations bent on sabotage have ranged from crude “wiper” attacks that destroy data on target computers to the legendary Stuxnet, a piece of malware the US and Israel first deployed in Iran in 2007 to silently accelerate the spinning of nuclear enrichment centrifuges until they destroyed themselves. Now researchers have discovered another chapter in that decades-long evolution of cybersabotage techniques: a 21-year-old specimen of malware capable of tampering with research and engineering software to undetectably sow mayhem—one that may have been used in Iran, even before Stuxnet.
Vitaly Kamluk and Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, two researchers from the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, on Thursday revealed a breakthrough in the mystery of a piece of malware known as Fast16, a piece of code whose purpose has eluded the cybersecurity world since its existence was first revealed in an NSA leak in 2017. The SentinelOne researchers have now reverse-engineered the Fast16 code, which they say dates back to 2005 and was likely created by either the US government or one of its allies.
Kamluk and Guerrero-Saade have determined that the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then silently manipulating computation processes in certain software applications that perform high-precision mathematical calculations and simulate physical phenomena, Fast16 can alter the results of those programs to cause failures that range from faulty research results to catastrophic damage to real-world equipment."
https://www.wired.com/story/fast16-malware-stuxnet-precursor-iran-nuclear-attack/
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"In the history of state-sponsored hacking, the spectrum of cyber operations bent on sabotage have ranged from crude “wiper” attacks that destroy data on target computers to the legendary Stuxnet, a piece of malware the US and Israel first deployed in Iran in 2007 to silently accelerate the spinning of nuclear enrichment centrifuges until they destroyed themselves. Now researchers have discovered another chapter in that decades-long evolution of cybersabotage techniques: a 21-year-old specimen of malware capable of tampering with research and engineering software to undetectably sow mayhem—one that may have been used in Iran, even before Stuxnet.
Vitaly Kamluk and Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, two researchers from the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, on Thursday revealed a breakthrough in the mystery of a piece of malware known as Fast16, a piece of code whose purpose has eluded the cybersecurity world since its existence was first revealed in an NSA leak in 2017. The SentinelOne researchers have now reverse-engineered the Fast16 code, which they say dates back to 2005 and was likely created by either the US government or one of its allies.
Kamluk and Guerrero-Saade have determined that the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then silently manipulating computation processes in certain software applications that perform high-precision mathematical calculations and simulate physical phenomena, Fast16 can alter the results of those programs to cause failures that range from faulty research results to catastrophic damage to real-world equipment."
https://www.wired.com/story/fast16-malware-stuxnet-precursor-iran-nuclear-attack/
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"In the history of state-sponsored hacking, the spectrum of cyber operations bent on sabotage have ranged from crude “wiper” attacks that destroy data on target computers to the legendary Stuxnet, a piece of malware the US and Israel first deployed in Iran in 2007 to silently accelerate the spinning of nuclear enrichment centrifuges until they destroyed themselves. Now researchers have discovered another chapter in that decades-long evolution of cybersabotage techniques: a 21-year-old specimen of malware capable of tampering with research and engineering software to undetectably sow mayhem—one that may have been used in Iran, even before Stuxnet.
Vitaly Kamluk and Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, two researchers from the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, on Thursday revealed a breakthrough in the mystery of a piece of malware known as Fast16, a piece of code whose purpose has eluded the cybersecurity world since its existence was first revealed in an NSA leak in 2017. The SentinelOne researchers have now reverse-engineered the Fast16 code, which they say dates back to 2005 and was likely created by either the US government or one of its allies.
Kamluk and Guerrero-Saade have determined that the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then silently manipulating computation processes in certain software applications that perform high-precision mathematical calculations and simulate physical phenomena, Fast16 can alter the results of those programs to cause failures that range from faulty research results to catastrophic damage to real-world equipment."
https://www.wired.com/story/fast16-malware-stuxnet-precursor-iran-nuclear-attack/
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"In the history of state-sponsored hacking, the spectrum of cyber operations bent on sabotage have ranged from crude “wiper” attacks that destroy data on target computers to the legendary Stuxnet, a piece of malware the US and Israel first deployed in Iran in 2007 to silently accelerate the spinning of nuclear enrichment centrifuges until they destroyed themselves. Now researchers have discovered another chapter in that decades-long evolution of cybersabotage techniques: a 21-year-old specimen of malware capable of tampering with research and engineering software to undetectably sow mayhem—one that may have been used in Iran, even before Stuxnet.
Vitaly Kamluk and Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade, two researchers from the cybersecurity firm SentinelOne, on Thursday revealed a breakthrough in the mystery of a piece of malware known as Fast16, a piece of code whose purpose has eluded the cybersecurity world since its existence was first revealed in an NSA leak in 2017. The SentinelOne researchers have now reverse-engineered the Fast16 code, which they say dates back to 2005 and was likely created by either the US government or one of its allies.
Kamluk and Guerrero-Saade have determined that the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then silently manipulating computation processes in certain software applications that perform high-precision mathematical calculations and simulate physical phenomena, Fast16 can alter the results of those programs to cause failures that range from faulty research results to catastrophic damage to real-world equipment."
https://www.wired.com/story/fast16-malware-stuxnet-precursor-iran-nuclear-attack/
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Sabotage-malware kan have været rettet mod Irans 🇮🇷 atom-program – og er ældre end #Stuxnet
Researchers har endelig knækket #Fast16 - en mystisk kode, der i al hemmelighed kan manipulere beregnings- og simulerings-software
Den blev udviklet i 2005 – sandsynligvis sat i spil af USA 🇺🇸 eller en allieret
https://www.wired.com/story/fast16-malware-stuxnet-precursor-iran-nuclear-attack/ -
You thought stuxnet was the first cyber weapon?
Nope. You are wrong. Recent report from @SentinelOne uncovered a cyber weapon reference made 5 YEARS before Stuxnet.
#cybersecurity #infosec #security #cyberweapon #stuxnet #fast16
