Once this malicious code was installed on computers at the plant, staff noticed that systems and components began breaking down increasingly regularity. Due to these failures, one of the plant’s blast furnaces could not be shut down in a controlled manner, which resulted in “massive damage to plant,” the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said in an official report, which goes on to describe the technical skills of the attacker(s) as “very advanced.”

via Hackers damage German factory.

HT Charles Guan