What was Stuxnet? The worm that destroyed 1,000 centrifuges
In 2010, Stuxnet showed that code can destroy real hardware: the US-Israeli worm damaged around 1,000 Iranian nuclear …
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4 July 2009: the DDoS that revealed the Lazarus Group to the world
On 4 July 2009, hackers knocked over the websites of the White House, the Pentagon and the NYSE in a coordinated DDoS — …
NotPetya: the US$10 billion cyberattack, 9 years on
On 27 June 2017, a wiper disguised as ransomware left Ukraine and caused US$10 billion in damage. Maersk, Merck and …
Morris Worm: the 1988 worm that nearly took down the internet
On 2 November 1988, a worm released by a Cornell student brought down 6,000 computers and almost stopped the entire …
Clipper malware steals crypto via USB and uses Tor as C2
Microsoft warns of a campaign active since February 2026 that combines a USB worm, clipboard hijacking and Tor-based C2 …
Miasma: supply chain worm infects 32 Red Hat npm packages
On 1 June, the Miasma worm compromised 32 Red Hat npm packages and stole AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes credentials …
GitHub hacked via a VS Code extension: the TeamPCP case
A corrupted VS Code extension was live for 18 minutes and cost GitHub 3,800 internal repositories. Here's how that …
JDownloader hacked: the attack nobody saw coming
Between 6 and 7 May, the official JDownloader site was breached and installers swapped for a Python RAT. Anyone who …
ILOVEYOU: 26 years of the virus that infected 45 million PCs
On 4 May 2000, an 'ILOVEYOU' email left the Philippines and, within 24 hours, took down 45 million PCs. Today that worm …
Sasser: 22 years of the birthday worm that froze Windows XP
On 29 April 2004, an 18-year-old German student released Sasser into the world on his own birthday. Eight days later: a …