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SentinelOne
@sentinelone.com

The history of cyberwar just got rewritten with a new @sentinellabs.bsky.social discovery by Vitaly Kamluk and @jags.bsky.social. Stuxnet wasn't the beginning of nation-state sabotage through software. It was just the first one we caught. Read the full @wired.com story by @agreenberg.bsky.social 👇

Andy Greenberg@agreenberg.bsky.social

A newly decoded piece of sabotage malware called Fast16, created even before Stuxnet, was designed to silently tamper with/corrupt calculations in research and engineering software. Likely created by the US or an ally, and possibly used against Iran's nuclear program. www.wired.com/story/fast16...

wired.comNewly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates StuxnetResearchers 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.
SentinelOne
@sentinelone.com

Meet fast16 — compiled in 2005, five years before Stuxnet. It isn't espionage. It's not ransomware. It's a precision instrument designed to make scientists trust math that's been quietly broken. Silently. Precisely. Across an entire network.

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