Chevron confirms 2010 Stuxnet hit
Chevron becomes the first U.S. company to confirm a network hit by the Stuxnet virus, an incident that reportedly occurred back in 2010 when the malware – designed to interfere with critical infrastructure operations – was discovered.
CIO Journal, Wall Street Journal's tech news service, broke the news Thursday afternoon, and interviewed Mark Koelmel, the oil giant's general manager of the earth sciences department.
“I don't think the U.S. government even realized how far it spread,” Koelmel told the publication. When Stuxnet was made public in June 2010, a New York Times article contended that the worm was a creation of the United States and Israel to undermine Iran's nuclear program, where infections were primarily centralized.
