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posted by martyb on Monday June 01 2015, @05:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Pandora's-Box dept.

A precision digital weapon reportedly created by the US and Israel to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program had a fraternal twin that was designed to attack North Korea’s nuclear program as well, according to a new report.

The second weapon was crafted at the same time Stuxnet was created and was designed to activate once it encountered Korean-language settings on machines with the right configuration, according to Reuters. But the operation ultimately failed because the attackers were unable to get the weapon onto machines that were running Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program.

WIRED reported back in 2010 that such an operation against North Korea would be possible in light of the fact that some of the equipment used by the North Koreans to control their centrifuges—the devices used to turn uranium hexafluoride gas into nuclear-bomb-ready fuel—appeared to have come from the same firms that outfitted the Iranian nuclear program.

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/us-tried-stuxnet-north-koreas-nuclear-program/

Related: North Korean Defector Warns that Hackers Could Kill.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday June 01 2015, @05:46PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Monday June 01 2015, @05:46PM (#190797)

    Actually, telling them not to fuck is a great way to generate lots of extra computers before you're done installing software and switching networks. Viruses tend to thrive as you don't talk about firewalls either.

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