Some Information about Stuxnet

Security experts said Stuxnet is cyber weapons, which was created as a tool of terrorism

in cyberspace, which until now still not known who was behind the attack Stuxnet. There are rumors, saying that the virus is designed to attack large industrial systems, and nuclear sites in Iran is one of the objectives of this virus attacks. If the rumor is true, then it is possibility that a virus has been created with an intervention by a country or institutions that have substantial funds which has the intended  to infiltrate another country’s national security system.

How to Stuxnet can infected a computer ?
- This virus spreads via USB thumb drive storage device that has been infected, by exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows operating system.
- This virus will spread in share network that has a acces level full.

How about widespread Stuxnet ?
From the research that has been done by a computer security firm Symantec, shows that countries affected by this virus attack on August 6 is, Iran with a number of computers infected 62.867 computers, Indonesia 13.336 computers, India’s computer 6.552, the United States 2.913 computer, Australia  2.436 computers, England 1.038 computers, Malaysia 1.013 computers , and Pakistan 993 computers.

Who was first identified this virus attack ?
Belarus Companies Virusblokada is the first was identified this virus in mid-June.

How much harm could be caused by this virus?
These viruses will steal the victim’s computer information, it was reported that when a virus attacks the SCADA system, the virus can take over the machine control system. In a modified variant of this virus were reported, in the Vista operating system will causes the hard disk becomes full.

Therefore some information about Stuxnet. In the next article I will try to write how to prevent and eliminate this virus from your computer.