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Fast16 Malware
Newly reverse-engineered Fast16 malware predates Stuxnet as likely US-origin state-sponsored sabotage tool against Iran.
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Researchers have reverse-engineered a piece of malware named Fast16. It’s almost certainly state-sponsored, probably US in origin, and was deployed against Iran years before Stuxnet: “…the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then silently manipulating computation processes in certain software applications that perform high-precision mathematical calculations and simulate
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