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Snowden Confirms Stuxnet Malware developed by NSA and Israel Together

Edward Snowden has confirmed that Stuxnet Malware was developed by NSA and Israel Together. The NSA is “in bed with the Germans, just like with most other Western states,” Snowden said in an interview with Der Spiegel Magazine. Studnet made international headlines in 2010 for specifically targeting a uranium enrichment facility in Iran. The virus was designed to make the centrifuges spin out of control and cause physical damage to the plant in Natanz, Iran. Last year an even more complex computer virus called Flame was discovered and identified a module within both indicated that the writers of Flame were the same.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/07/Edward-Snowden-Stuxnet-NSA-Israel.html

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