Oh Shit ! Stuxnet code being sold on black market
Dec 02, 2010
According to a report from Sky News, the Stuxnet worm has already been traded on the black market. The report does not clarify whether this refers to the source code or to binary samples. British security specialists now fear that terrorists could use the worm to attack critical infrastructure. The report quotes an IT security consultant to the UK government as claiming, "You could shut down power stations, you could shut down the transport network across the United Kingdom". According to the report, there is hard evidence that Stuxnet is in the hands of highly motivated, well trained, well financed criminals. Sky News' source declined to give more precise information. Audun Lødemel, VP of Marketing and Business Development at German IT service provider Norman, believes that, "It was just a matter of time before the Stuxnet code was made available for anyone, with even the most basic knowledge of coding, to alter and potentially wreak havoc on the UK infrastructure.