Stuxnet: The Cyberweapon That Quietly Sabotaged a Nuclear Program — And Rewrote Cybersecurity
What if a few thousand lines of code could break machines in the real world—without a single missile fired? In 2010, investigators found a worm slithering through industrial computers, quietly spinning up and slowing down high-speed centrifuges used in Iran’s nuclear program. That code, known as Stuxnet, didn’t just crash computers. It broke stuff. If…