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The engineer served as a mole for the intelligence agency and succeeded in delivering the Stuxnet virus via a USB drive.

Revealed: How Stuxnet Attack on Iranian Systems Succeeded

Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi revealed that Tehran had developed an indigenous firewall securing its sensitive industrial facilities against Stuxnet, a cyber-weapon widely believed to be made by the US and Israel and used in the past to target the Islamic Republic's nuclear energy program.

SNSC Secretary Reveals Iran's Discovery, Annihilation of CIA's Cyber Network

The Stuxnet attack exploited four such vulnerabilities.

'Zero days' tells story of appeals court says Iran Stuxnet worm & Natanz can keep cuneiform tablets

It was said that the success of Stuxnet - in both forms - averted a planned military strike by Israel against Iran's reprocessing efforts in 2011.

IRGC's Cyber-War With The Saudi-Led GCC Bloc

Various teams of cyber experts from around the world began dissecting the code of this cyber worm, which became known as Stuxnet, and debates grew over its origin and targets.

Stuxnet and its hidden lessons on the ethics of cyberweapons

Stuxnet security flaw was first spotted by German security researcher Michael Heerklotz.

Microsoft releases patches for FREAK and Stuxnet security flaws

Stuxnet was used to take Iran's uranium centrifuges offline by

While all eyes are on Freak fix, Microsoft patches five-year-old Stuxnet vuln

A new version of Stuxnet was compiled and time-stamped on June 22, 2009, the day hard-line candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was officially declared the winner of a contested presidential election.

The United States and Iran are in a Mexican standoff

Woodward pointed that once Stuxnet was released, its spread was impossible to predict or control because the code intended for Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities attacked Siemens control systems, including electrical generation plants, factories and water treatment works.

S. Korea developing Stuxnet-like cyberweapons to physically damage N. Korea nuke facilities

The US and Israel were said to be behind a (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/425562/20130118/warns-iranian-cyber-capabilites.htm) Stuxnet attack on the Natanz nuclear plant in Iran in January.

Israel and Saudi Arabia 'Plotting Cyber Attack on Iran's Nuclear Project'

On June 1, 2012, The New York Times revealed that Stuxnet was part of a wave of sophisticated digital attacks codenamed "Olympic Games," which US President Barack Obama had ordered against the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities.

Iran to Hold Nationwide Cyber Maneuver

Understanding the Implication of Stuxnet. Aby Tehranipour, Eastern Michigan University