Hello and welcome to malicious life. I'm Ran Levy.

This week's episode is the third and final part of our series on Stuxnet,

the computer virus that struck the Iranian nuclear program. The last two parts of the episode focused on the technological characteristics of Staxnet,

a computer virus that attacked the Uranium enrichment facility in Iran and was exposed

in 2010 almost accidentally by a small IT company from Belarus. We described the way the malicious software

penetrated the facilities network, located the control systems computers,

and finally started messing with the gas centrifuges by increasing and decreasing their rotation speed,

all while presenting pre-recorded false data to the technicians and programmers.

This level of sophistication to the technicians and programmers.

This level of sophistication made Stuxnet a groundbreaking malware,

the first real cyber weapon.

Now it's time to talk about the people who created it.

In the computer security business, this question is usually considered to be secondary.

In most cases, even if we do... is usually considered to be secondary.

In most cases, even if we do catch the creators of malicious software

and punish them, the software itself still continues to spread.

It's like a man releasing a lion from its cage.

We might be able to punish the man, but the priority is catching the lion

before it gets downtown.

In Stuxnet's case, however,

identifying the creators of the software

isn't secondary at all.

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