Stuxnet May Represent New Trend In Malware

Trailrunner7 writes "As more information continues to come out about the Stuxnet worm and the vulnerabilities that it exploits, it's becoming increasingly clear that this kind of attack may be a preview of the attacks that are likely to become commonplace in the months and years ahead. The most interesting aspect of all of this is the fact that the attackers behind Stuxnet clearly knew about the vulnerability in the Siemens WinCC system before the malware was written. That implies the malware authors had some advance intelligence about the configuration of the Siemens software and knew exactly where there was a weakness."

Comments

Uh - what?

[Anonymous Coward]

The article that the summary links to in support of the idea that the attackers had inside information is actually about a hardcoded password that existed for *two years* before the vulnerability was found. The article argues pretty strongly that security through obscurity is no security at all and makes no mention of anyone having inside information - how can you get it so wrong?