Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead’s final target and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.
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ABOUT Ralph Langner
“Ralph Langner heads Langner, an independent cyber-security firm that specialises in control systems, electronic devices that monitor and regulate other devices, such as manufacturing equipment.
These devices’ deep connection to the infrastructure that runs our cities and countries have made them, increasingly, the targets of an emerging, highly sophisticated type of cyber-warfare.
And since 2010, when the Stuxnet computer worm first reared its head, Ralph Langner has stood squarely in the middle of the battlefield. As part of a global effort to decode the mysterious programme, he and his team analysed Stuxnet’s data structures, and revealed what he believes to be its ultimate intent: the control system software known to run centrifuges in nuclear facilities specifically, facilities in Iran. Further analysis by Langner uncovered what seem to be Stuxnet’s clandestine origins.”
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