The IRONGATE malware is likely a proof of concept, but could signal future attacks.
Researchers have found a malware program that was designed to manipulate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to hide the real readings from industrial processes.
The same technique was used by the Stuxnet sabotage malware allegedly created by the U.S. and Israel to disrupt Iran’s nuclear program and credited with destroying a large number of the country’s uranium enrichment centrifuges.
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