US launched failed Stuxnet attack against North Korea in 2010
▻http://rt.com/usa/263369-north-korea-us-stuxnet
US spies tried to infect North Korean computers with Stuxnet, the same virus used to disrupt Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, but the attack was not successful, intelligence officials familiar with the campaign admitted to Reuters.
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According to one US intelligence source, Stuxnet’s developers produced a related virus, activated upon encountering Korean-language settings on an infected computer.
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Experts interviewed by Reuters said that North Koreans used the same systems as Iran, with P-2 centrifuges obtained by Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan. In all likelihood, they said, the North Koreans used the same control software developed by Siemens AG, and ran Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Stuxnet took advantage of vulnerabilities in both the Siemens and Microsoft software.
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The revelations come as defector Kim Heung-Kwang told the BBC that North Korea had an army of 6,000 hackers and was creating its own malware based on Stuxnet.
The original Reuters announcement:
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/29/us-usa-northkorea-stuxnet-idUSKBN0OE2DM20150529