New Stuxnet-like Malware targets industrial cntrol systems

Security researchers have discovered a sophisticated piece of malware named Iron Gate that uses tricks from the Stuxnet sabotage malware and is specifically designed to target industrial control systems (ICS) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems as used in many Power Plants. Remember our government spokes people bragged about our ability to do this. Now we probably are not able to use this again.

Researchers at the security firm FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering said on Thursday that the malware, dubbed “IRONGATE,” affects Siemens industrial control systems. Siemens has thousands of these systems controlling Power Plants and industrial facilities all over the world.

The research team doesn’t think that Irongate is written by the Stuxnet’s authors, as Irongate is not the type of sophistication one would expect from a nation state. But the question still remains: Who did write Irongate?

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