According to a 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 week, 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 attack type Stuxnet. Leaders with fewer ambitions could learn and implement this policy on vital infrastructure.
"While the Stuxnet was clearly the work of a state, as it requires enormous resources and skills, future attacks on industrial and other systems may not be,” Langner said in an article he wrote about his study in the journal Foreign Policy.
