Details of the first-ever control system malware (FAQ) July 21,
2010 4:00 AM PDT by Elinor Mills India, Indonesia and Iran are
getting hit the most by the Stuxnet worm. The security world is
aflutter over new malware that has been spreading via USB
devices and is programmed to steal data from systems running
specific software used in utilities and industrial manufacturing
plants. There are a lot of moving parts to this story so we've
decided to break them down and tell you what is happening and
how it impacts you. What is the malware exactly? The attack
involves several components: a worm that spreads via USB drives
and exploits a previously unknown vulnerability in Windows and a
Trojan backdoor that looks to see if an infected machine is
running a specific type of software created by Siemens used in
control systems including industrial manufacturing, utilities
and even nuclear powered aircraft carriers. The worm, dubbed
Stuxnet, propagates by exploiting a hole in all versions of
Windows in the code that proc