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Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years

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FAST16 could be the first cyberweapon, and its effects could be with us today
Black Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation software and therefore represents an attempt at sabotage, and suggests it was created years before the Stuxnet worm that aimed to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment centrifuges.…

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