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Whoever was trying to get this into the wild was really sloppy in execution of an otherwise “beautiful” attack.
Stuxnet effectively put a stopgap in Iranian’s nuclear program. This backdoor could barely make it out of the alpha phase of development.
> A patch was ready to be introduced into Linux to prevent this type of attack (dynamically loading unneeded libraries).
Whoever was trying to get this into the wild was really sloppy in execution of an otherwise “beautiful” attack.
Stuxnet effectively put a stopgap in Iranian’s nuclear program. This backdoor could barely make it out of the alpha phase of development.