Newly Deciphered Sabotage Malware May Have Targeted Iran’s Nuclear Program—and Predates Stuxnet

Researchers have finally cracked Fast16, mysterious code capable of silently tampering with calculation and simulation ...
TechJuice

Researchers Uncover Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Targeting Engineering Software From 2005

Researchers uncover Fast16 malware from 2005, a pre-Stuxnet cyberweapon targeting engineering systems and infrastructure.

Researchers find cyber-sabotage malware that may predate Stuxnet by five years

Black Hat Asia Infosec outfit SentinelOne found malware that tries to induce errors in engineering and physics simulation ...
SecurityWeek

Pre-Stuxnet Sabotage Malware ‘Fast16’ Linked to US-Iran Cyber Tensions

The Fast16 sabotage malware targeted high-precision computing workloads and could propagate through entire facilities.
Infosecurity Magazine

Researchers Identify Fast16 Sabotage Malware That Pre-Dates Stuxnet

Security researchers have identified malware dating back to 2005 that appears to have been designed to disrupt Iran’s nuclear ...
Dark Reading

20-Year-Old Malware Rewrites History of Cyber Sabotage

Researchers have long considered the Stuxnet attacks on Iran's nuclear centrifuges in Natanz to be the opening chapter of ...
CSO Online

Researchers unearth industrial sabotage malware that predated Stuxnet by 5 years

Targeting high-precision floating-point arithmetic operations in engineering modeling software, Fast16 may now be the ...
Arabian Post

Fast16 redraws cyber sabotage timeline

Security researchers have identified a 2005-era malware framework that appears to have targeted high-precision engineering software, raising new questions about covert attempts to disrupt Iran’s ...