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Experts Confirm the Fast16 Malware Was Sabotaging Nuclear Weapons Tests, Likely in Iran


Fast16 didn't predate Stuxnet but was contemporaneous with it. It also wasn't aimed at altering nuclear weapons but was simply feeding false data to engineers about the nuclear detonation tests they were conducting, in order to trick them into believing the tests were failing.

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