Re:Found hooked up to my router
by Anarch157a on Thursday September 27, 2018 @09:56PM
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Natanz was air gapped. Stuxnet penetrated the facility on a phisical device, once inside it spread over the LAN. The Widespread distribution of it on the open Internet was because of a bug in the code.
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> The Widespread distribution of it on the open Internet was because of a bug in the code.
It's presumed that the Israelis got a little bit greedy and, even though it was doing it's job, tried to make the virus do it's job a little better. They made it more virulent which made it spread outside of the systems it was only targeted to spread to.