World Famous Cyber Attacks
Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm, first uncovered in 2010, thought to have been in development since at least 2005. Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems called Ciman-Plc and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of Iran.
Stuxnet was a join product in USA and Israel.
Stuxnet reportedly destroyed numerous centrifuges in Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility by causing them to burn themselves out. Over time, other groups modified the virus to target facilities including water treatment plants, power plants, and gas lines.
Stuxnet was written “was written in multiple languages, including C, C++ and other object-oriented languages.” Source code is not available, but binaries can be found in the right places.
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Code Red was a computer worm observed on the Internet on July 15, 2001. It attacked computers running Microsoft’s IIS web server. It was the first large scale, mixed threat attack to successfully target enterprise networks.
The worm spread itself using a common type of vulnerability known as a buffer overflow. It did this by using a long string of the repeated letter ‘N’ to overflow a buffer, allowing the worm to execute arbitrary code and infect the machine with the worm.
The Code Red and Code Red II worms popped up in the summer of 2001. Both worms exploited an operating system vulnerability that was found in machines running Windows 2000 and Windows NT. … The original Code Red worm initiated a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the White House.
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