Anonymous, the group of late hacktivists that has become a kind of righteous causes digital Social boasted Stuxnet access.
Anonymous Members have indicated that after the attacks earlier this month made against the security firm HBGary have obtained the only malware code that has specific commands to operate computer technology industrial manufacturer Siemens, whichever far as is known. Stuxnet has been used to sabotage nuclear power plants.
The computer security company McAfee has classified as malware Stuxnet more sophisticated and intelligent to be aware.
The operations manager of Symantec, Orla Cox, told the British newspaper The Guardian this does not mean that Anonymous will have access to an Iranian nuclear plant, as they did last September, the creators of the virus, and the group of hacktivists for now poses a threat to security, but should learn Stuxnet manage before use.
According to a recent report Symantec, makers of the virus managed to breach the security of the Iranian plant because they had full knowledge of their ultimate goal. This investigation revealed that nuclear sabotage the terminal, the creators of Stuxnet used as a way of distributing five industrial plants, also of Iranian origin, as a springboard to industrial control systems of the uranium processing plant.
order to infect the five industries, the creators had to have personnel infiltrated into each of them. The report explained that the infection occurred via a USB memory stick and not through the Internet.
For its part, Snorre Fagerland, senior researcher at security firm Norman, downplayed the news, stating that the copy obtained by Anonymous Stuxnet is not a full version of the virus, so the risk of an attack by the group is smaller.
has been very active group so recent hacktivists Anonymous to participate in attacks Denial Distributed servers service of U.S. companies in advancing the cause of Wikileaks, and to the websites of the governments of Zimbabwe, Tunisia and Egypt. It is known that among their plans is to attack the Iranian government Web portals. Netmedia
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