Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World, 2nd Edition

Stuxnet and the 21st Century

If the first decade of the 21st century was the adolescence of cyberwarfare activity, the second and third decades are shaping up to be one of continued maturity of these techniques. The cyberattacks that took place during the first half of this decade are increasingly sophisticated and have had significant effects on their targets. This century has seen cyberwarfare become one of the dominant domains of conflict between nations.

Stuxnet

In perhaps the most significant example of cyberwarfare to date, a computer worm named Stuxnet attacked and destroyed the uranium enrichment centrifuges located at an Iranian nuclear facility in the city of Natanz. The worm was carefully designed by a sophisticated adversary to ...