Designed to cripple Iran’s nuclear enrichment program, the 2010 Stuxnet worm set a cybersecurity precedent as the first time a nation escalated its activities from strategic espionage to sabotage in cyberspace. Now, a new discovery suggests such operations were in full swing years before Stuxnet came to light. Researchers from SentinelOne have tracked down samples…
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20-Year-Old Malware Rewrites History of Cyber Sabotage
Researchers have uncovered a malware framework dubbed “fast16” that predates Stuxnet by 5 years.