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🏛 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ⚔
Did you know that 2 of the most famous nation-state cyberattacks are connected to June?
On June 17, 2010, the #Stuxnet worm was first uncovered. Read more in 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙕𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙖𝙮, by Kim Zetter. @kimzetter
✍ https://tinyurl.com/5ymfkr8wAnd on June 27, 2017, the #NotPetya global cyberattack began. Read more in 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢, by Andy Greenberg. @agreenberg
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🏛 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ⚔
Did you know that 2 of the most famous nation-state cyberattacks are connected to June?
On June 17, 2010, the #Stuxnet worm was first uncovered. Read more in 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙕𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙖𝙮, by Kim Zetter. @kimzetter
✍ https://tinyurl.com/5ymfkr8wAnd on June 27, 2017, the #NotPetya global cyberattack began. Read more in 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢, by Andy Greenberg. @agreenberg
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🏛 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ⚔
Did you know that 2 of the most famous nation-state cyberattacks are connected to June?
On June 17, 2010, the #Stuxnet worm was first uncovered. Read more in 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙕𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙖𝙮, by Kim Zetter. @kimzetter
✍ https://tinyurl.com/5ymfkr8wAnd on June 27, 2017, the #NotPetya global cyberattack began. Read more in 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢, by Andy Greenberg. @agreenberg
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🏛 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ⚔
Did you know that 2 of the most famous nation-state cyberattacks are connected to June?
On June 17, 2010, the #Stuxnet worm was first uncovered. Read more in 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙕𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙖𝙮, by Kim Zetter. @kimzetter
✍ https://tinyurl.com/5ymfkr8wAnd on June 27, 2017, the #NotPetya global cyberattack began. Read more in 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢, by Andy Greenberg. @agreenberg
✍ https://tinyurl.com/34xpmpy8 -
🏛 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 ⚔
Did you know that 2 of the most famous nation-state cyberattacks are connected to June?
On June 17, 2010, the #Stuxnet worm was first uncovered. Read more in 𝘾𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙕𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝘿𝙖𝙮, by Kim Zetter. @kimzetter
✍ https://tinyurl.com/5ymfkr8wAnd on June 27, 2017, the #NotPetya global cyberattack began. Read more in 𝙎𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢, by Andy Greenberg. @agreenberg
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Fast16 Malware Exposes Pre-Stuxnet Cyber Warfare Roots
Meet fast16, a sneaky malware framework that's been around since 2005 - five years before the infamous Stuxnet - and is designed to quietly sabotage high-precision software by subtly altering numerical results. This stealthy approach can cause systems to fail, wear out faster, or produce false conclusions, making it a chilling…
#IndustrialControlSystems #MalwareOperations #NationState #CyberWarfare #Stuxnet
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Researchers Uncover 'fast16' Malware Targeting Engineering Software Years Before Stuxnet
Researchers have uncovered a long-forgotten malware, fast16, that was designed to sabotage engineering software, beating even the infamous Stuxnet by at least five years. This ancient cyber threat, dating back to 2005, was engineered to spread rapidly and produce inaccurate calculations…
#IndustrialControlSystems #LuapoweredMalware #SabotageFramework #Stuxnet #MalwareOperations
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This article does not mention common sense stuff -- like making printed copies of important documents, storing data on external hard drives, or having a Ham radios and/or walkie talkies or mesh networks!
Experts Warn The #Internet Will Go Down In A Big Way — And You'd Better Be Ready
Story by Geoff Williams, 9/23/2025
"It’s bad enough when the internet goes down for a few hours because your power went out after a storm, but what if the internet went down indefinitely, sort of everywhere? What if your state or an entire region of the country lacked the internet or electricity because of a cyberattack or something innocuous, like problems with an aging grid or the federal government forgot to pay a bill?"
Read more (pretty lame -- reads like a #Starlink advert):
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/experts-warn-the-internet-will-go-down-in-a-big-way-and-you-d-better-be-ready/ar-AA1N8R1x?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhoverent&cvid=68d30a5c5f7c45d5a5daae8e70321664&ei=24#InternetOutages #KesslerSyndrome #CarringtonEvent #cyberattacks #1000SIMCards #CyberAttacks #SystemVulnerabilities #ConnectedGrids #TechDisruption #DisruptiveTechnology
#Landlines #TechVulnerability #OneThousandSIMCards #Malware #Stuxnet -
This article does not mention common sense stuff -- like making printed copies of important documents, storing data on external hard drives, or having a Ham radios and/or walkie talkies or mesh networks!
Experts Warn The #Internet Will Go Down In A Big Way — And You'd Better Be Ready
Story by Geoff Williams, 9/23/2025
"It’s bad enough when the internet goes down for a few hours because your power went out after a storm, but what if the internet went down indefinitely, sort of everywhere? What if your state or an entire region of the country lacked the internet or electricity because of a cyberattack or something innocuous, like problems with an aging grid or the federal government forgot to pay a bill?"
Read more (pretty lame -- reads like a #Starlink advert):
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/experts-warn-the-internet-will-go-down-in-a-big-way-and-you-d-better-be-ready/ar-AA1N8R1x?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhoverent&cvid=68d30a5c5f7c45d5a5daae8e70321664&ei=24#InternetOutages #KesslerSyndrome #CarringtonEvent #cyberattacks #1000SIMCards #CyberAttacks #SystemVulnerabilities #ConnectedGrids #TechDisruption #DisruptiveTechnology
#Landlines #TechVulnerability #OneThousandSIMCards #Malware #Stuxnet -
20 Jahre #Melani: Die grössten Fälle - inside-it.ch https://www.inside-it.ch/20-jahre-melani-die-groessten-faelle-20241219 #Hacking #CyberCrime #Malware #Ransomware #DDoS #log4j #HeartBleed #Emotet #NotPetya #Stuxnet #WannaCry
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20 Jahre #Melani: Die grössten Fälle - inside-it.ch https://www.inside-it.ch/20-jahre-melani-die-groessten-faelle-20241219 #Hacking #CyberCrime #Malware #Ransomware #DDoS #log4j #HeartBleed #Emotet #NotPetya #Stuxnet #WannaCry
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20 Jahre #Melani: Die grössten Fälle - inside-it.ch https://www.inside-it.ch/20-jahre-melani-die-groessten-faelle-20241219 #Hacking #CyberCrime #Malware #Ransomware #DDoS #log4j #HeartBleed #Emotet #NotPetya #Stuxnet #WannaCry
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So, whenever I think about #Stuxnet, I recall how a journalist in Japan, #YoichiShimatsu, wrote about possible #Israeli Stuxnet sabotage at #Fukushima -- which caused some critical systems to fail. Many derided Shimatsu's theories as "Conspiracy Theories," but there may be a grain of truth in them -- especially given what happened with the recent #Malware attack on pagers in #Lebanon...
Journalist Accuses Israel of Fukushima Sabotage
October 14, 2011
By Richard Walker
"A leading Japanese journalist recently made two incredible claims about the Fukushima power plant that suffered a nuclear meltdown in March 2011, sending shockwaves around the world. First, the former editor of a national newspaper in Japan says the U.S. and Israel knew Fukushima had #weaponsgrade #uranium and #plutonium that were exposed to the atmosphere after a massive tsunami wave hit the reactor. Second, he contends that Israeli intelligence sabotaged the reactor in retaliation for Japan’s support of an independent #Palestinian state.
"According to Yoichi Shimatsu, a former editor of Japan Times Weekly, these nuclear materials were shipped to the plant in 2007 on the orders of Dick #Cheney and #GeorgeWBush, with the connivance of Israeli Prime Minister #EhudOlmert. The shipment was in the form of warhead cores secretly removed from the U.S. nuclear warheads facility BWXT #Plantex near Amarillo, Texas. While acting as the middleman, Israel transported warheads from the port of Houston, and in the process kept the best ones while giving the Japanese older warhead cores that had to be further enriched at Fukushima.
"Shimatsu credits retired #CIA agent and mercenary Roland #VincentCarnaby with learning the warheads were being transported from Houston. In a strange twist, Carnaby was mysteriously shot dead less than a year later by Houston police at a traffic stop. He was shot once in the back and once in the chest. He did not have a weapon in his hands.
"Intelligence sources said he had been tracking a #Mossad unit that was smuggling U.S. plutonium out of Houston docks for an Israeli nuclear reactor.
"In an even more explosive charge, the journalist says that 20 minutes before the Fukushima plant’s nuclear meltdown, Israel was so upset with Japanese support for a Palestinian declaration of statehood that it double-crossed Japan by unleashing the Stuxnet virus on the plant’s computers. The virus hampered the shutdown, leading to fallout from a section of the plant housing uranium and plutonium retrieved from the warheads supplied in 2007.
"While it is impossible to verify some of Shimatsu’s claims, there was a massive cover-up at the time of the Fukushima disaster in March [TRUE!!!]. Explosions at the site were immediately downplayed. While it was subsequently reported that three reactors suffered meltdowns, Japanese authorities tried to rate the disaster as a Level 4 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, although outside experts declared it a 7, which is the highest level.
"Something worth noting is how in 2009, two years after Shimatsu says the warheads were secretly moved to Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) issued a veiled warning to Japan not to abandon its #AntiNuclear weapons policy.
"The IAEA had to know, however, that Japan has long retained the potential to build #NuclearWeapons. That was made clear as far back as 1996 when a leaked Ministry of Foreign Affairs document exposed how Japan had been promoting a dual strategy in respect to nuclear weapons since the mid-1960s. It would often publicly profess a non-nuclear policy while maintaining the ability to build a nuclear arsenal. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics, has always said there is no constitutional impediment to nukes.
"A factor that undoubtedly would have encouraged the Bush-Cheney White House to provide Japan with the means to secretly build nukes was the growing power of China. Cheney and Bush sought to arm Japan and India with nuclear weapons as a means of curbing China."
Read more:
https://americanfreepress.net/japanese-journalist-accuses-israel-of-fukushima-sabotage/ -
So, whenever I think about #Stuxnet, I recall how a journalist in Japan, #YoichiShimatsu, wrote about possible #Israeli Stuxnet sabotage at #Fukushima -- which caused some critical systems to fail. Many derided Shimatsu's theories as "Conspiracy Theories," but there may be a grain of truth in them -- especially given what happened with the recent #Malware attack on pagers in #Lebanon...
Journalist Accuses Israel of Fukushima Sabotage
October 14, 2011
By Richard Walker
"A leading Japanese journalist recently made two incredible claims about the Fukushima power plant that suffered a nuclear meltdown in March 2011, sending shockwaves around the world. First, the former editor of a national newspaper in Japan says the U.S. and Israel knew Fukushima had #weaponsgrade #uranium and #plutonium that were exposed to the atmosphere after a massive tsunami wave hit the reactor. Second, he contends that Israeli intelligence sabotaged the reactor in retaliation for Japan’s support of an independent #Palestinian state.
"According to Yoichi Shimatsu, a former editor of Japan Times Weekly, these nuclear materials were shipped to the plant in 2007 on the orders of Dick #Cheney and #GeorgeWBush, with the connivance of Israeli Prime Minister #EhudOlmert. The shipment was in the form of warhead cores secretly removed from the U.S. nuclear warheads facility BWXT #Plantex near Amarillo, Texas. While acting as the middleman, Israel transported warheads from the port of Houston, and in the process kept the best ones while giving the Japanese older warhead cores that had to be further enriched at Fukushima.
"Shimatsu credits retired #CIA agent and mercenary Roland #VincentCarnaby with learning the warheads were being transported from Houston. In a strange twist, Carnaby was mysteriously shot dead less than a year later by Houston police at a traffic stop. He was shot once in the back and once in the chest. He did not have a weapon in his hands.
"Intelligence sources said he had been tracking a #Mossad unit that was smuggling U.S. plutonium out of Houston docks for an Israeli nuclear reactor.
"In an even more explosive charge, the journalist says that 20 minutes before the Fukushima plant’s nuclear meltdown, Israel was so upset with Japanese support for a Palestinian declaration of statehood that it double-crossed Japan by unleashing the Stuxnet virus on the plant’s computers. The virus hampered the shutdown, leading to fallout from a section of the plant housing uranium and plutonium retrieved from the warheads supplied in 2007.
"While it is impossible to verify some of Shimatsu’s claims, there was a massive cover-up at the time of the Fukushima disaster in March [TRUE!!!]. Explosions at the site were immediately downplayed. While it was subsequently reported that three reactors suffered meltdowns, Japanese authorities tried to rate the disaster as a Level 4 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, although outside experts declared it a 7, which is the highest level.
"Something worth noting is how in 2009, two years after Shimatsu says the warheads were secretly moved to Japan, the International Atomic Energy Agency (#IAEA) issued a veiled warning to Japan not to abandon its #AntiNuclear weapons policy.
"The IAEA had to know, however, that Japan has long retained the potential to build #NuclearWeapons. That was made clear as far back as 1996 when a leaked Ministry of Foreign Affairs document exposed how Japan had been promoting a dual strategy in respect to nuclear weapons since the mid-1960s. It would often publicly profess a non-nuclear policy while maintaining the ability to build a nuclear arsenal. The Liberal Democratic Party, which has dominated Japanese politics, has always said there is no constitutional impediment to nukes.
"A factor that undoubtedly would have encouraged the Bush-Cheney White House to provide Japan with the means to secretly build nukes was the growing power of China. Cheney and Bush sought to arm Japan and India with nuclear weapons as a means of curbing China."
Read more:
https://americanfreepress.net/japanese-journalist-accuses-israel-of-fukushima-sabotage/ -
Of course, now we know who was behind #Stuxnet -- #Israel and the #CIA -- thanks!
Why the #StuxnetWorm is like nothing seen before
By Paul Marks
27 September 2010"Stuxnet is the first worm of its type capable of attacking #CriticalInfrastructure like #PowerStations and #ElectricityGrids: those in the know have been expecting it for years. On 26 September, #Iran’s state news agency reported that computers at its #Bushehr #NuclearPowerPlant had been infected.
Why the fuss over Stuxnet?
"#ComputerViruses, worms and #trojans have until now mainly infected PCs or the servers that keep e-businesses running. They may delete key system files or documents, or perhaps prevent website access, but they do not threaten life and limb.
"The Stuxnet worm is different. It is the first piece of #malware so far able to break into the types of computer that control machinery at the heart of industry, allowing an attacker to assume control of critical systems like #pumps, #motors, #alarms and #valves in an industrial plant.
"In the worst case scenarios, safety systems could be switched off at a nuclear power plant; fresh water #contaminated with effluent at a #SewageTreatmentPlant, or the valves in an #OilPipeline opened, contaminating the land or sea.
“'Giving an attacker control of industrial systems like a #dam, a sewage plant or a power station is extremely unusual and makes this a serious threat with huge real world implications,' says Patrick Fitzgerald, senior threat intelligence officer with Symantec. 'It has changed everything.'
Why is a different type of worm needed to attack an industrial plant?
"Industrial machinery is not controlled directly by the kind of computers we all use. Instead, the equipment used in an industrial process is controlled by a separate, dedicated system called a programmable logic controller (#PLC) which runs supervisory control and data acquisition software (#SCADA).
"Running the SCADA software, the PLC controls the process at hand within strict safety limits, switching motors on and off, say, and emptying vessels, and feeding back data which may safely modify the process without the need for human intervention – the whole point of industrial automation.
So how does a worm get into the system?
"It is not easy because they do not run regular PC, Mac or Linux software. Instead, the firms who sell PLCs each have their own programming language – and that has made it tricky for hackers to break it.
"However there is a way in via the Windows PC that oversees the PLC’s operations. Stuxnet exploited four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows to give a remote hacker the ability to inject malicious code into a market-leading PLC made by German electronics conglomerate Siemens.
"That’s possible because PLCs are not well-defended devices. They operate for many years in situ and electronic access to them is granted via well-known passwords that are rarely changed. Even when Stuxnet was identified, Siemens opposed password changes on the grounds that it could cause chaos as older systems tried to communicate using old passwords.
Where did the initial Stuxnet infection come from?
"It appears to have first arrived in Iran on a simple #USBMemoryStick, says Fitzgerald. His team in Dublin, Ireland has been analysing Stuxnet since it was first identified by a security team in Belarus in June.
"The first of the four Windows vulnerabilities allowed executable code on a USB stick to spread to a PC. The USB may have been given to an Iranian plant operative – or simply left somewhere for an inquisitive person to insert into their terminal.
"Says Fitzgerald: 'It then spreads from machine to machine on the network, exploiting a second vulnerability to do so, and reports back to the attacker on the internet when it finds a PC that’s running Siemens SCADA software. The attacker can then download a diagram of the industrial system set-up the SCADA controls.'
"The next two Windows vulnerabilities lets the worm escalate its privilege levels to allow the attacker to inject Siemens PLC format computer code – written in a language called STL – into the PLC. It’s that code which is capable of performing the skulduggery: perhaps turning off alarms, or resetting safe temperature levels.
How do we know where Stuxnet is active?
"Symantec monitored communications with the two internet domains that the worm swaps data with. By geotagging the IP addresses of Stuxnet-infected computers in communication with the attacker, Fitzgerald’s team found that 58.8 per cent of infections were in Iran, 18.2 per cent in #Indonesia, 8.3 per cent in #India, 2.6 per cent in #Azerbaijan and 1.6 per cent in the US.
Who is behind the worm?
"No one knows. It is however very professionally written, requiring what Fitzgerald calls 'a broad spectrum of skills' to exploit four new vulnerabilities and develop their own SCADA/PLC set-up to test it on.
"This has some commentators suggesting that a #NationState with plenty of technical resources may have been behind Stuxnet. But computer crime is a billion dollar business so such an effort is not beyond extortionists.
"Stuxnet comprises a 600-kilobyte file and it has not yet been fully analysed."
Read more:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19504-why-the-stuxnet-worm-is-like-nothing-seen-before/ -
Вирусы с яйцами. Какие сюрпризы скрывают вредоносные программы
Программистам тоже иногда бывает скучно. Если ты трудишься в какой-нибудь серьезной софтверной компании, можно немного развлечься, запрятав куда-нибудь в недра разрабатываемой тобой программы пасхалку, причем так, чтобы ее случайно не обнаружили на code review. Судя по всему, именно так появилась на свет знаменитая «бродилка» под названием The Hall of Tortured Souls в Microsoft Excel 95, «леталка» в Excel 97, или прикол с запросом «Do a barrel roll» в поисковике Google. Вирусописатели, оказывается, тоже не брезгуют подобными развлечениями: истории известно множество вредоносных программ с припрятанными «пасхальными яйцами». Вот самые известные из них.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/serverspace/articles/837074/
#вирусы #Elk_Cloner #Stuxnet #ILOVEYOU #Melissa #Sasser #Lovesan #TDSS #TDL
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