As you might have guessed from the title, this is about Stuxnet, the advanced worm/cyberweapon which successfully targeted and damaged centrifuges at the Iranian nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz in 2010. It is believed to have been jointly developed by the US and Israel.<p>This PDF is "A Technical Analysis of What Stuxnet’s Creators Tried to Achieve". 37 pages. 2013.<p>Related HN discussion about Stuxnet from earlier this week: "The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written" - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17099969" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17099969</a>
This is a great companion to the documentary "Zero Days", which gives a lot of political context to stuxnet, and has a good discussion at the end about the ethics of using offensive cyber weapons.<p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/</a>
They admit that Stuxnet was a US cyberwar program under Obama.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mw1VT3AxHo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mw1VT3AxHo</a> (starts at 06:45).