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Stuxnet: The Malware That Sabotaged a Nuclear Program
In June 2010, a small Belarusian antivirus firm received a malware sample they could not immediately classify. Six months of analysis later, the security industry understood that it had found the first piece of malware specifically built to cause physical destruction in the real world. The target was a nuclear enrichment facility. The operators were two of the most capable intelligence services on the planet. The era of cyber-physical warfare started here.
nullbyte :: April 18, 2026 :: 10 min read