Stuxnet worm heralds new era of global cyberwar

Peter Beaumont
Guardian
October 1, 2010

• A d v e r t i s e m e n t

The memory sticks were scattered in a washroom at a US military base in the Middle East that was providing support for the Iraq war.

They were deliberately infected with a computer worm, and the undisclosed foreign intelligence agency behind the operation was counting on the fallibility of human nature. According to those familiar with the events, it calculated that a soldier would pick up one of the memory sticks, pocket it and – against regulations – eventually plug it into a military laptop.

It was correct.

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The result was the delivery of a self-propagating malicious worm into the computer system of the US military’s central command – Centcom – which would take 14 months to eradicate.

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This article was posted: Friday, October 1, 2010 at 11:47 am

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