Stuxnet is no big deal, ESET chief says

A recently discovered cyber virus known as “Stuxnet” only made waves in the media as experts were able to quickly thwart the risk, according to the Europe, Middle East, and Africa sales manager of antivirus software company ESET.

Stuxnet was not a serious attack due to the way it was spread, Miroslav Mikus told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Tuesday during his visit to the company's Turkish office.

“It actually spread on its own so the hacker does not really have a control over it in terms of where the virus will go in the end,” Mikus said. “If the attack had really been planned, it could not have occurred this way because it took the experts only a few hours to develop a cure for it.”