Why would a nuclear weapons program have a link to the outside world? And if it was on their own network, why wasn’t drives locked down?
My bet is the system admins real name was Moshe.
Stux propegates through various ways, but most likely it was by a USB stick taken into the network.
Go read up about it. It’s a pretty neat little bit of malware that is terrifically focused at centrifuge drives
My guess is that the attack could have came from students. The pro-democracy students learned that a frontal attack against the government does not work so they now have started a guerrilla war against the radical leadership. This could be the start of the first fiber revolution.
The rumor is that it was loaded by some other nationals with flash drives. Some nationals that can protect their secrets—which rules us out.
Imagine if Wikileaks put secrets of Iran, Russia, China or Israel. Assange would experience anal leakage.
“Why would a nuclear weapons program have a link to the outside world?”
It didn’t.
Scuttlebut is that certain folks’ HOME computers and the computers of consultants were targeted -— indeed, basically all the computers in Iran.
A keyfob thumb drive taken from work to home was the point of contagion.
Why would a Dept. of Defense computer terminal with potential access to a mountain of classified data be equipped with a CD-R/W drive?