Stuxnet creators recognized they had built the world’s first true cyber-weapon and were more interested in pushing the envelope of this new type of digital warfare than causing large-scale destruction within targeted Iranian nuclear facilities. Assailants with less ambition could take the lessons learned and apply them to civilian critical infrastructure, expert Ralph Langner said. Langner’s analysis was based on reverse engineering the attack code and combining the data with the design of the targeted nuclear facility and background information on the uranium-enrichment process.”]

