A piece of malware known as Stuxnet has been playing out many of the fears of critical infrastructure owners around the world. The spy program is a sophisticated rootkit designed to steal data from SCADA networks, the type of software that control energy utilities, transportation, and other vital systems. That makes it the first publicly-known threat, aside from occasional unattributed reports, to target the long-vulnerable infrastructure systems.
But even as attention to the spyware grows, the worm may still be largely the Middle East and Asia’s problem.
Symnatec’s post about this :- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/w32stuxnet-network-information
Analysis by Symantec regarding possible motivations behind the attack :-http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/hackers-behind-stuxnet
More Details :- http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/07/23/stuxnet-spyware-still-mostly-infecting-middle-east/
