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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by acutesoftware on Friday May 18, 2018 @09:55AM (#17101444)
They certainly wouldn't be calling lots and lots of API's, as that would likely trigger some antivirus software or at least leave traces in system logs.

The sophistication of this software is that it did all this undetected.

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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by exikyut on Friday May 18, 2018 @10:50AM (#17101896)
"x86 is a high-level language": https://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/x86-is-high-level-languag... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9264195

Everything's an API at the end of the day.

There was an article on here recently about the practical effects of the TLS 1.3 drafts, and how they broke proxies. I can't find it. It was talking about how the proxies choked because so many variable wire bits in TLS 1.2 stayed static for so long they rusted in place in proprietary implementations, and the proxies crashed once the values changed (despite this being a concrete protocol violation). This situation reminds me of that.

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Re:The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software e... by sgtmas2006 on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:57AM (#17112056)
I would love to read this if you come across it.
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