Stuxnet Worm Virus
A first-of-its-kind computer worm is taking malicious software to an unprecedented level.
As if attempting to steal personal information or inflicting chaos on your laptop isn't bad enough, security experts say the Stuxnet worm is designed to hijack and potentially cripple real-world targets such as nuclear power plants, factories and oil rigs.
Security experts first learned of the new strain of software in June, but only disclosed its ability to infect major industrial systems in recent weeks.
"This is cyber sabotage," said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior researcher for the security firm Kaspersky Labs. "Stuxnet is designed to basically bring down a plant or take down operations."
For several years, the security community has speculated about a worm complex enough to infiltrate a computer system for a nuclear power plant or oil refinery and then modify operations, he said. But they've never actually seen one in the public arena until Stuxnet.
Source: ABC News
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