Re:Ukraine Cyber Attack Looks More Ominous Years Later
by tlb on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:15PM
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> That distinction would make the blackout malware one of only three pieces of code ever spotted in the wild aimed at not just disrupting physical equipment but destroying it, as Stuxnet did in Iran in 2009 and 2010 and the malware Triton was designed to do in a Saudi Arabian oil refinery in 2017.
There was a documented CIA malware operation in 1982 that blew up Soviet gas pipelines. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...