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Reuters spoke about the failure of the US hacker attack on North Korea
In 2010, the US National Security Agency tried to use the Stuxnet worm against North Korea, which was used to stop uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran. However, this attempt was unsuccessful.
The hackers were unable to get to the computers that control nuclear facilities in the DPRK, as they were well isolated from the outside Internet. The NSA declined to comment on the operation.
According to Reuters, in the DPRK there is no open access to the Internet, while in Iran it is much more widespread. At the same time, North Korea uses approximately the same equipment in the nuclear field as Iran: computers run on Windows, and centrifuge control equipment is developed by Siemens. It was for these systems that the Stuxnet virus was developed.
Since the systems were similar, if Stuxnet had been able to implement it, he wouldn't have had to mess around with Korean programs for a long time (eng. lang.)
- In 2010, journalists learned about the operation "Olympic Games" jointly by the United States and Israel. The operation started around 2006; in 2007, the first version of Stuxnet was introduced into Iranian systems. As a result of a cyber attack using the Stuxnet worm, it was possible to stop uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iranian Netenz.
- Officially, information about involvement in the operation in the United States is not confirmed. How the virus got into the centrifuge control system, which is not connected to the Internet, is still unknown. The companies that supply equipment to Iran's nuclear sector, including Siemens machines that control centrifuges, were probably infected first.