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Researchers say the worm is designed to attack a very particular configuration of the Simatic SCADA software, indicating the malware writers had a specific facility or facilities in mind for their attack and had extensive knowledge of the system they were targeting, possibly with the purpose of destroying the system and creating real-world explosions in the facility where it ran.

Researchers who have spent the last three months reverse-engineering the code and running it in simulated environments now say that it’s designed for sabotage, and that its level of sophistication suggests that a well-resourced nation-state is behind the attack. A few researchers have speculated that Iran’s nascent nuclear program was a possible target for the worm’s destructive payload, though that’s based on circumstantial evidence.