Stuxnet Virus Worm - Cyber Attack False Flag by Iran

[MrCati]

Excellent video and information regarding Stuxnet. Great background on Microsoft and in the separate motivations of Russia and Iran. While the recent China attacks are also troublesome, it only stands to include China who supplies the worlds parts and electronics could be trying to affect future supplies of needed parts that would be critical in any war. Good video. Keep at it.

[gadzometer]

Hi Mate, A couple of comments:

1) WinCC is the Control System for these facilities but is not in control of any safety systems. This is done with SIL rated PLCs or devices.

2) How does it seek out and control specific types of plants? The IEC-1131-5 programming language in the PLCs, all images in the HMIs and all points are stored in a database and every single facility is different. There is no way for the system itself to know what type of plant it is installed on.

[gadzometer]

@gadzometer 3) The virus can only operate outputs or read inputs. Without the writer of the virus having intimate knowledge of a specific facility and the process loops, the virus can only operate random outputs or prevent them from operating. The best you could do is look for commonly used tag names in our industry and hope that they may perform the same action. But every client has their own tag naming convention.

[Gray86Fox]

Great video