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Code Clues Point to Stuxnet Maker


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Uranium centrifuge

Stuxnet seems to have been designed to target uranium-enrichment systems.

Detailed analysis of the code in the Stuxnet worm has narrowed the list of suspects who could have created it.

The sophisticated malware is among the first to target the industrial equipment used in power plants and other large scale installations.

New research suggests it was designed to disrupt centrifuges often used to enrich uranium.

Forensic analysis of the worm has revealed more about the team behind it and what it was supposed to do.

From BBC News
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