STUXNET: The Virus that Almost Started WW3
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 มิ.ย. 2011
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In June last year, a computer virus called Stuxnet was discovered lurking in the data banks of power plants, traffic control systems and factories around the world.
Pandora's box has been opened; on the new battlefield the aggressors are anonymous, the shots are fired without starting wars and the foot soldiers can pull their triggers without leaving their desks.
Last week the United States government announced they would retaliate to a cyber-attack with conventional force. The threat is real, and the age in which a computer bug could cost lives has begun.
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One of the things that the video failed to mention is that the virus didn't just shut down the centrifuges. If it had just shut them down, they could have patched the software and got them back up and running (and they possibly could have detected the virus). Rather, the virus altered the RPMs of the device so it would generate a resonating frequency which would destroy the device over time. To the layman's eye, it would appear that the centrifuges were operating perfectly.
I'm more impressed by the animation rather than the virus
right? video was posted in 2011
A timeless piece designed and directed by Patrick Clair. This animation propelled him into designing some of the most famous title sequences like West world and True detective.
Very state of the art animation, indeed. Design-wise reminds me of briefing animations in latest Hitman games.
It's like recent video
looks like watch dogs
how was this video made in 2011? Impressive work! Great animations & good information presentation.
It's called adobe After Effects and polymorphic 3d models. The designer is world-class, carefully panned cameras, made transitions, placements, and attention to the mood, inflection, or timing of the narrator. This person specializes in these types of infomercials. But in this case, it's no commercials, this is something people would pay millions for on the dark web/black market at that time.
1:45
That acronym did not age well
I'm a Mac: I update Twitter.
I'm a PC: I shutdown Iran's Nuclear Facilities.
I'm a Mac: I can easily run Windows as well as MacOS and even Linux, so I can do all of the above and then some, all from within a coherent virtual environment (no re-starting the machine over and over again to use the multiple operating systems). I think I win.
Reid Stady
I'm a person who values rational discussion, and I don't have a strong opinion about a superior operating system.
I'm a mac: teenage girls and college kids use me
@@ReidStady I'm a PC I can do literally every a Mac can and for cheaper, and better performance.
Holy sh!t that was the quickest and best breakdown of stuxnet ever!
lolya
Except it's outdated....
@@nekilof-2363yep isn't it confirmed to be us
holy shit nice animation
yes nice Grafic Design
More impressive than the virus itself
I have to say, I've mindlessly watched a lot of videos on youtube. This video really caught my attention! They were very unique in design and they kept the information direct, it was wonderful.
Are u still alive
For everyone wondering, the number of zero-days was indeed 4, but that is only counting Windows.
There were a number of others used for various control systems, network infrastructure and propagation & infiltration methods.
Many of them were included as redundancies. I'm not sure if the number was 20, but it was more than the 4 used solely for Windows.
Amazing animation. I mean, the video and info is great and all, but the standout here is the badass typography and animations. Thanks
Thanks for this, man! I needed this for research purposes!
whoa whoa whoa. I have realtek audio drivers......does this mean.........THAT explains why those power plant and oil rig controls and graphics have kept popping up
Thanks for posting, good stuff
it's been 12 years and this animation still surpasses most of the best online content.
Very instructive video !
thank you this video is perfect for my presentation in pace and duration
This is how watchdogs characters hack cars
Stuxnet used a total of 5 exploits, 4 of out 5 were 0-days and all the vulnerabilities are now patched. Stuxnet is no longer a threat.
Only for Windows systems. It's impossible to know of the other vulnerabilities or if they were ever patched.
@@botdfbvb This is not remotely correct.
Researches had samples of the virus.
The researches spent significant time reverse engineering it on multiple operating systems. Which was part of what clued them into the fact that it had different exploits for different systems.
While researching stuxnet they found the exploits and, at least one of which was a zero day.
It doesn't matter what other vulnerabilities exist, stuxnet can't just magically exploit them.
Can you imagine? A virus that detects what computer is playing a certain video on TH-cam (a video about the virus itself) and attacks that computer just to scare people. Lol.
Ultimate troll
@@dustinalecxander8647 øk
excellent explanation
the motion graphics in this video are fantastic
Thanks to Reddit, you have a new Sub. Very interesting, and well done!
Loved the 0Arame font usage. just watched by chance right now
Love the garageband samples!
What a fantastic video!
Wow.. This is some kickass presentation..
You guys are the best news service (if you will) ever.
very informative.
That animation deserves more views.
The best animation and the quickest describe that described well about Stuxnet
Hello Hungry Beast, i'd like to ask you if I could use your video, to show it to some classmates (7) in a presentation? It is very informative and short,too, so it would be nice if you let me show it once. Sincere regards, Elias Gödecke
@damshek
it all depends on the systems used. If you think about things on a different level, we can root into a server on the other side of the country, install software and activate it. I run a VPS server with my hosting company running CENTOS and I plan on installing a serverside version of Minecraft so technically an "open source weapon" theory wouldn't be too far off. Sure, you would need to know the inner workings of the systems but finding an angry employee wouldn't be too hard.
it full source code is not available you need to decompile main parts of code on your own!!
Where are you now hungrybeast
I saw this on tv, and now Hank sent me back. :D
Some people are SO good it's scary...
Very obvious to see the inspiration taken from this video for Watch Dogs trailer infographics!
this is sooo disturbing
Interesting stuff.
Was it made with Adobe After Effects?
how they made this is mind blowing!
"Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)" :| P.S. 9gag brought me here.
This is not true, lol. Stuxnet, was looking for PDL's with a specific serial number, refering to PDL on an IRAN power plant, to manage the velocity of the centrifuge. This throw the program back for several month, since it destroyed about 1000 centrifuges. Not WW3 -.-'
well you don't get half a million views by not clickbaiting with a global nuclear overkill
+Toxodos true though :-)
Actually, while the title might be sensational, it's not entirely incorrect because of Israel's escalation - the original American Stuxnet code, called Olympic Games, was relatively safe and targeted the Iran power plant, but Israel kept pressuring the USA to make it more powerful until, like a bunch of irresponsible assholes, they did it themselves and released it without permission or knowledge from the USA. That's how Stuxnet came back and attacked American infrastructure targets and Homeland Security was never told about their own country's involvement while fighting it.
Iran became aware of what had happened and sent 2 serious viruses to the USA to show they knew what was going on and were capable of fighting back in cyberspace. In response, the USA has infected most of Iran's infrastructure with a virus that can cripple their entire cities in an instant. This escalation has had similarities to the nuclear arms race which opens a theoretical path to WWIII, but luckily Iran has agreed to sanctions to stop their nuclear program.
Bottom line,Iran is as close as can be to being a smoldering black spot on the earth with several interests involved,their cooperating & going to eat the cyber attack & say thank you….may i have some more
The Israeli Mossad and Zionist CIA were the ones who created this Virus so what did Iran do? They retaliated and attacked New York they Shut down power in NY for 3 days lmfao! The U.S Israel and the Saudis created ISIS Terrorists!
what's the font name of the stuxnet heading in pink?
my computer science professor was talking about stuxnet the other day. he said the virus itself was so advanced and the coding was so complex it was like finding an iphone in the 1970s, so he had a hard time believing anyone could have designed it.
what that may mean is that the virus was sent here from the future. maybe iran ended up developing nukes which lead to a war, and someone was able to send a virus to our time to try to stop it. thats just my theory.
Oh how much time do we have before everything hits the fan?
3:02
"9 months after it's detection"
should be its, not it's
dude this is crazy
20x complex? How do you measure complexity and how did you compare it with all other viruses and reached to 20?
Always using wrong means to stay ahead of others.
Such a fancy animation! Where does that figures come from? 20X more complex than any other viruses code?!! I would say 21X more complex..
Media itself sounds even more powerful than that weapon made out of code..
sorry to call it out but this is journalism written by people who have absolutely no idea about penetration code/software
+robotic turdle before you say "thought so" maybe let him answer.
2 years later... Can we call him out now?
dangp7 For starters, stuxnet didn't exploit twenty zero-days, but four.
@@Gytax0 adding on to that it is not completely open source or it would be promotedly remodified, and publicly distrubuted, and only a partial amount the code is even accesible (although should still take work searching the web for modules, especially since well it's the MOST SOPHISTICATED CODE IN THE WORLD!) also, the little hook part at the end about how it could be used as a weapon aimed towards anyone is completely false, you would basically have to reprogram the whole script, because stuxnet was specifically and extremely precisly designed to only work on computers containing info or with the ability to control the power facilities at the exact plant.
Can anyone tell me the name of the background track that's been used in this video???
james cameron is gonna be like i totally sorta told you so!
Can anyone tell me the name of the background track used in this video..??
The name itself is badass!!
@BladeAssault I examined the source code and I may not understand everything. I understood that it does actually stop pipelines etc
Can’t believe this was in 2010
Iran nuclear: 'Terrorist act' at underground Natanz facility. Looks like Stuxnet is back in business.
There were only 4 zero day exploits...
'20% more complex...' Howso?
heavy watchdogs 2 vibes i love it
Let the game begin...
@check2773 I was quoting Solid Snake from his MGS4 line.
@LukeFilewalker Umm. You didn't double post. There is only one comment and it says comment removed.
@Artacus no sorry.
@firelordkataang pretty sure it only works on Siemens controllers, not PCs.
I hate when people use videos like this to try to explain things to a mainstream audience like its a hacker movie. The actual virus looks like a bunch of text on notepad.
The typography is amazing
And this virus is fucking tERRIFYING
@1:10 No, it only used 4 zero days.
@ihmen How do you know? That powerplant was giving electricity :D
amazing animation!!! omg i cant believe this video released in 2011. subscirbed and very impressive video i ever seen on youtube
gotta watch the documentary "Zero Days"!!!
War...war has changed.
now there's a much more dangerous virus in 2020 that is a bit worrisome
happy christmas and i like the edits
The guy sounds like he's reading a text he doesnt understand a single word lmao
hmm.... i can't help but wonder how people name viruses in the first place
11 years old video looks like 2022 video nice
Really compelling video, but why oh why did they use the wrong form of "its" at 3:03? Gahhhhhh.
This is completely unrelated to the content of the video, but even though I'm Australian, I still get caught off-guard when I here people with australian accents on youtube.
whats the first largest online army?
What is the main difference between Stuxnet and Harvey?
This is blown completely out of proportion. It would require an inside person to do it, making it no different than regular terrorism.
Cool animations but really lacks on information and realism. Stuxnet came with 4 0-days (not 20) and it's power really depends on it, so there is no importance in being available online for other people, it's the other way around, I find it very instructive for cybersecurity experts.
Why OT networks in plant should be connected to internet?
I can't think of anything more beautiful than this virus
Nice animations, but sadly, quite a few inaccuracies about stuxnet. Then again, explaining all those little, yet quite complex details correctly would take way longer than most people would care to watch I guess.
The whole "open source weapon" part is slightly exaggerated.
The virus alone won't help you to shut doun an oil pipeline- you'll need things like detailed information on the inner workings of it's components (not the sort of information you can google), actual people to go there and physically put the virus in the right control panel, and so on, and so forth. So just hackers won't do much damage.
That's not to say this is not a dangerous situation, but it's not "die hard 4" dangerous yet.
You forgot that the explosion in Iran caused by Stuxnet set Iran's nuclear facilities back by 2 years
The Israeli Mossad and Zionist CIA were the ones who created this Virus so what did Iran do? They retaliated and attacked New York they Shut down power in NY for 3 days lmfao! The U.S Israel and the Saudis created ISIS Terrorists!
Lukie2131
Sources?
It was only set back my a little less than a year. But Iran also gained huge amounts knowledge and power in the cyber world when they figured it was a virus and they then adapted the virus to attack USA. Which they did twice. One attack was against an American oil company that wiped the source code off of 30k devices. And one against several American banks that brought all their activities to a halt.
@@northwind2748 It was actually just a year. They explain it towards the end of Zero Days so I'm sure you can find it online.. if you haven't in 3 years.
1 year. Israel really messed it up. 4 zero days is likely 10 million - 50 million, it likely cost 100k and so much effort to create the military grade virus. The goal was to shutdown the plant, and destroy the program by getting into the Engineers heads (it was assumed they wouldn't find the virus in time as it deletes itself).
Then Israel went rogue and added a line of code, the ONLY bug in the entire code which is unheard of. The single line Unit 2800 put in then turned it into a worm which immediately got into the real world, with the media attention Iran figured it out pretty quick.
Basically this was a very high level, sophisticated, multi-nation failure. I'm sure Israel had their reasons, but all that effort and funds to set Iran back just a single year which is far from a success.
Germany was also heavily involved. That doesn't get mentioned much.
What a stupid title. Stuxnet stopped Iran from starting WWIII... or at least slowed them down.
+lapezeus LOL dude.
@macbookpro145 right on!
@ihmen I suppose that is my point. It could of been programmed to do something alot worse!
It's scary to think about what someone with a evil intent would create.
@Ashkunx A friend of mine who was travelling in Iran said the people there are so friendly it's bordering on insanity!
What happens when you shut down centrifuges at a nuclear powerplant?
I'm here because of my Uber driver...
and now there are 28,000more people that have seen this and will go screw around with that virus
Yaser Ghannam sent me here :)
They spelt stuxnet wrong in the video title.
@Aeikozz its also a show on tv :)
It says stuxnext in the title :) did u notice?