alt Hacker NewsImportant to note that the system(s) it infected were non-trivially air-gapped, so it had to do the entirety of it's infectious work without command and control servers or receiving any additional input. It had to be an entirely autonomous process from infection to propagation to execution.
Pretty amazing to have been pulled off seemingly so successfully.
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stingraycharles • today at 2:24 AM
Wasn’t it actually not as successful as it could have been? I recall something about it spreading to more machines than it should have, which caused it to be detected earlier than it should have.
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Yes they actually flooded the market with USB drives with Stuxnet. But it was actually too good and started infecting non-target computers. That’s what got a malware researcher to dig in and he saw multiple zero days being used and deduced it was a Mossad and US operation.