According study, its creators Stuxnet they recognized that they had built the first real cyber weapon and were more interested in spreading this new kind of digital war than in causing large-scale attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities.
In an analysis released last weekteam, Ralph Langner, head of The Langner Group and a renowned industrial control systems (ICS) expert, countered arguments that only a nation-state had the resources to launch a type attack Stuxnet. Leaders with fewer ambitions could learn and implement this policy on vital infrastructure.
"While Stuxnet was clearly the work of a state, as it requires huge resources and skills, future attacks on industrial and other systems may not be," Langner said in an article he wrote about his study in Foreign Policy.