Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet
Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation software. It was created in 2005—and likely deployed by the US or an ally.
Instead, Kamluk saw that it was a self-spreading piece of code with very different intentions. Using what was referred to within the code as wormlet functionality, Fast16 is designed to copy itself t… [+3097 chars]