Stuxnet

computer worm
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Stuxnet, a computer worm, discovered in June 2010, that was specifically written to take over certain programmable industrial control systems and cause the equipment run by those systems to malfunction, all the while feeding false data to the systems monitors indicating the equipment to be running as intended. As analyzed by computer security experts around the world, Stuxnet targeted certain “supervisory control and data acquisition” (SCADA) systems manufactured by the German electrical company Siemens AG that control machinery employed in power plants and similar installations. More specifically, the worm targeted only Siemens SCADA systems that were used in conjunction with ...(100 of 459 words)