When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target -- and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.
Everything has been said on the Stuxnet worm? Not quite. Someday a “James Bond” or “Mission impossible” film might be based on this case. Should we stop here? Clearly not, such an attack asks numerous questions and must challenge certitudes.
Washington, D.C. - Working with law enforcement authorities in Morocco and Turkey, the FBI today announced the arrests of two individuals believed to be responsible for the creation and distribution of the "Mytob" and "Zotob" computer worms that were unleashed less than two weeks ago and disrupted services on computer networks of a variety of companies including major U.S. news organizations.