Video Details How Stuxnet Worm Can Blow Up Power Plant
New York, NY, United States (AHN) – The new age of cyber warfare has arrived as video-sharing site, YouTube, shows a young Irish computing expert demonstrating to the world how the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran’s first nuclear power plant, can also destroy the physical plant as well.
Though lacking in production values like poor sound quality and the use of inaccessible computerese in the analyses of computer coding, the recent “You Tube” video of Liam O Murchu, a Symantec computer expert, is being viewed by thousands and passed from one software blog to the next. In the video, O Murchu demonstrates how a computer worm code-named “Stuxnet” can not only attack and blow up your computer screen but that it can actually, literally, blow up real things as well such as oil pipelines, power stations, even nuclear plants such as the recent cyber-attack on Iran ‘s Russian-made nuclear power plant in Bushehr..
To demonstrate the possibility, O Murchu set up a basic air pump, controlled by a Siemens system, on the stage in front of him. Turned on, the pump then delivered a timed burst of air into a balloon, which inflated moderately. O Murchu then infected the system with Stuxnet, pressed a button, and the pump continued pumping without stopping, inflating and enlarging the balloon until it finally burst.
O Murchu had also discovered the trace of a keyword in Stuxnet’s instructions: Myrtus. Myrtus, or Myrtle, which in Hebrew is Hadassah, the birth-name of Esther, the Jewish biblical heroine married to a king of Persia. Esther discovered that a courtier was plotting the murder of all of Persia’s Jews, and persuaded her husband to allow them to rise up pre-emptively to slaughter their assailants.
This could be another clue pointing to Stuxnet’s origin as possibly coming from Israel considering further that in July, 2009, a retired member of the Israeli security cabinet and a veteran of Shin Bet, the Israeli secret service, briefed the Reuters news agency on what an Israeli cyber-warfare attack might look like.
This was demonstrated through a security drill showing that a hacker could easily penetrate and explode an Israeli fuel depot. The Shin Bet informant further said that after this demonstration, cyber-warfare teams were formed with the sole purpose of developing technologies that could employ knowledge.
“This is a technology war that has gravitated into a cyber attack,” says Theodore Karasik, research director at the Institute of Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. “It’s not new but it’s getting more ferocious.”
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