Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions
It targeted high-precision calculation software to tamper with results and packed a self-propagation mechanism. The post Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SentinelOne has discovered a Lua-based sabotage malware created years before the notorious Stuxnet malware and designed to tamper with high-precision calculation software.
Dubbed Fast16, the malware was referenced in the ShadowBrokers’ leak of National Security Agency (NSA) offensive tools and was used in an attack in 2005. SentinelOne has found evidence indicating that Fast16, just like Stuxnet, may have been developed by the United States.
Looking for the first use of Lua in Windows malware, SentinelLab uncovered ‘svcmgmt.exe’, a service binary with an embedded Lua 5.0 virtual machine that referenced the kernel driver ‘fast16.sys’.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/pre-stuxnet-sabotage-malware-fast16-linked-to-us-iran-cyber-tensions/
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