A closer look
Stuxnet was a masterpiece of geopolitical sabotage, likely built by the US and Israel to secretly spin Iran's uranium centrifuges to death while feeding fake "everything is fine" signals to the operators. It was designed to stay strictly confined to the Natanz nuclear facility. But hackers underestimate human stupidity. A worker plugged an infected laptop into the highly secure network, got the malware, went home, and plugged it into the unfiltered internet. The most sophisticated, multi-million-dollar invisible cyberweapon in history immediately escaped into the wild, infecting hundreds of thousands of computers globally and blowing the CIA's cover.
