We’re back from our short break, with a fantastically interesting episode:
In 1989, a message was found in a virus: “Eddie Lives…Somewhere in Time!”. ‘Eddie’ was a particularly nasty virus, and its discovery led a young Bulgarian security researcher down a rabbit hole, on a hunt for the prolific creator of the Eddie virus: The Dark Avenger.
Guests: Vesselin Bontchev, Graham Cluley
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In this episode, the last of the series, we’ll learn about Stuxnet’s creators and their motives – and get to know Flame & Duqu, Stuxnet’s sinister sisters…
One of the urgent questions following Stuxnet’s discovery was the identity of its target. When this was finally revealed – Iran’s Uranium Enrichment facility – it also exposed the extent of its creator’s brilliance.
When it was discovered in 2010, Stuxnet was the most complicated and sophisticated malware ever known. The Stuxnet attack was a terrifying display of cyber warfare and jarring proof of concept: An Advanced Persistent Threat.