A Malware Anniversary to Remember

[Tom172]

Once in a while, a piece of malware will come along that grabs headlines. Rarer is malware that is talked about around the water cooler (at places other than Symantec). But the rarest of all is malware that actually makes history. It is for just such a piece of malware that we observe the one year anniversary this month.

Roughly around this time one year ago, a Belarusian computer security company reported finding malicious code designed to exploit a new Microsoft Windows vulnerability, dubbed the .LNK vulnerability. Little did they know this malware would change the world.

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Hard to believe it's been a year already...

 

[Tom172]

I can see this post is very popular, anyway here's an article posted by wired today. Very good read.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/how-digital-detectives-deciphered-stuxnet/all/1

 

[Jack]

1 year already? .... Guess will never find who did create this virus.
Do you think Stuxnet will ever be used against the home users?
As far as I can tell Stuxnet could work by exploiting several Windows vulnerabilities but finding them is a hard job so at the end of the day its faster and more cost effective to write a brand new virus.The original Stuxnet code used a total of 5 exploits, 4 of out 5 were 0-days and all the vulnerabilities are now patched, so Stuxnet is no longer a threat.