👾The Stuxnet Attack and The Dangerous Era of Cyber Warfare #shorts #cybersecurity #virus #nuclear

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm first uncovered in 2010 and thought to have been in development since at least 2005. Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of Iran

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Stuxnet didn't cause the centrifuges to spin out of control. It caused them to spin at a resonance frequency, which led to the quicker deterioration of the centrifuges. This means it had to be fixed much more often, so it had to be taken offline more often.