Stuxnet Leads the Top 10 Most Interesting Malware Threats List for 2010
According to researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro, the most remarkable threat for last year was by far the Stuxnet industrial espionage worm, which managed to get ahead other more long-running threats.
Stuxnet was discovered this summer, but it is believed to have existed since mid-2009. It is widely considered in the malware research community as the most sophisticated computer threat created to date.
At the time of its discovery, Stuxnet exploited four previously unknown vulnerabilities in Windows, at a time when exploiting a single one is a big deal. Also, its complex code base, which was built for sabotaging industrial control systems, in particular those in uranium enrichment plants, makes this threat a game changer.
