The massive Stuxnet worm attacks, which US and Israeli hackers launched against the Iranian civilian nuclear program and which eventually was attacking Siemens industrial computers across the planet, has self-destructed this morning, ending a major headache that spanned the planet.
The Stuxnet Worm was first discovered in June 2010 attacking Iranian industrial computers related to the enrichment of uranium. It damaged several centrifuges and then started attacking computers across the planet. The worm was developed by the CIA, with the help of the Department of Energy and Israeli hackers.
Though the designers didn’t have the foresight to keep the worm from attacking computers across the globe, they did apparently think to order it to self-destruct, and while the crisis isn’t entirely over (no word yet on Stuxnet variants) the worst seems to be behind everyone.
Iran’s Fars news agency was also cheering the end of Stuxnet, pointing out that the worm had failed to destroy the civilian program and that Iran is still enriching uranium for civilian purposes.
This has happened many times in warfare. For example, the British surprised the world with the Dreadnought battleship type, and then everyone was building them. The Germans dropped magnetic mines on Britain, and within a year or so everyone was dropping magnetic mines on everyone.
The hard work of conception, proof of concept, and detail design has been done and handed over to the world. Now all that remains is for the world to replicate it, tweek it a bit, and spread it back at all of their enemies.
A virus cannot self-destruct unless another virus is sent to do the job, if at all possible.
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