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    Stuxnet and the Cyber-Physical Battlefield

  • Stuxnet: How Malware Crossed Into the Physical World

    Cover image: Siemens SIMATIC S7-300 industrial programmable controller, photographed by Ulli1105; representative equipment, not a photograph of the Natanz facility. Original photograph, CC BY-SA 2.5; resized for this site. Introduction In 2010, security researchers uncovered Stuxnet, a highly specialized piece of malware that became a landmark case in the history of cyber-physical conflict. Unlike conventional…