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The story of Stuxnet — the world's first digital weapon. A computer worm created by the US and Israel to sabotage Iran's nuclear enrichment centrifuges. The attack that proved cyberweapons could cause physical destruction.
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Rhysider observes that Iran's nuclear facility was air-gapped and heavily secured, yet Stuxnet still reached it. When a nation-state is your adversary, the attackable surface is beyond any defender's full control.
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Stuxnet proved that code can destroy physical infrastructure — the line between digital and physical war disappeared
Rhysider traces how Stuxnet caused Iranian nuclear centrifuges to spin themselves apart while displaying normal readings to operators. For the first time, software caused measurable physical destruction to critical infrastructure.