Stuxnet quickly propagated throughout natanz knocking that facility offline and at least temporarily crippling iran s nuclear program once a user did nothing more than click on a windows icon. Iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad observes computer monitors at the natanz uranium enrichment plant in central iran where stuxnet was believed to have infected pcs and damaged centrifuges. Two of the intelligence sources who spoke with yahoo news indicated that there indeed had been loss of life over the stuxnet program.
Months after stuxnet s discovery a website in israel indicated that iran had arrested and possibly executed several workers at natanz under the belief that they helped get the malware onto systems at the plant. An iranian engineer recruited by the netherlands planted the stuxnet virus at an iranian nuclear research site in 2007 sabotaging. Iran s nuclear enrichment facility in natanz april 9 2007.
1 the fist signs that an issue existed in the nuclear facility s computer system in 2010. One of the affected industrial facilities was the natanz nuclear facility. It is believed that this attack was initiated by a random worker s usb drive.
Over fifteen iranian facilities were attacked and infiltrated by the stuxnet worm. Bergman hinted at the coincidence of the anniversary of the olympic games the stuxnet virus cyber attack on iran s nuclear facilities in july 2010 citing western intelligence sources report of a sabotage operation at the natanz nuclear facility. Satellite images beefed up the photos from ground level that slowly led iranian officials to.
The natanz nuclear plant lost a building when fire tore through it at 2 06 a m. The attack used a stuxnet worm which hampered the operation of plant s centrifuges and caused damage to them over time. Between 2007 2010 natanz nuclear power plant was hit by a sophisticated cyber attack that was carried out by german french british american dutch and israeli intelligence organizations.
The un nuclear watchdog international atomic energy agency iaea is keeping a close eye on the proceedings at this facility for the past few years. The shahid ahmadi roshan natanz nuclear complex is a known nuclear facility in iran. Attempt at stuxnet 2 0.
Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm first uncovered in 2010 thought to have been in development since at least 2005 stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to the nuclear program of iran although neither country has openly admitted responsibility the worm is widely understood to be a cyberweapon built.
