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Originally Posted by Vendor
I know how it is 'destroyed' infrastructure, but I maintain that it was not of the severe variety, some countries had problems with the undeniable, and it is due to their lower security level
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No, I think you get that wrong. Most countries have no bigger troubles with it, because the woirm was designed to attack very specific industrial compounds in Iran, not globally. Other countries only got affected because there industrial intallations share parts fo the control software by for example Siemens that also are used by the Oranians, but these other coutries do not meet the full list of specifics of ther attack profile of this worm, which saved them from being attacked in full, too. When the worm impatced in Iran, that was at a time, early last year, when the Iranians massievly increased the total number of centrifuges, but although they did, the number of operational centrifuges dramatically went down. These complexes were one of the target descpritons of the attacking software, and since these c omplexes are somewhat unique to Iran, other countries were not affected in full by this "worm". Consider these minor sideffects as kind of collateral damage. But the Iranian industry - has not recovered until today, they are still fighting with this beast, and it still is biting them.
Think of it like this:
The smaller the puppet, the deeper inside other puppets it was hidden, but the more dangerous it became, and the more complex.