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Our San Francisco bureau chief, @martingiles, spent several months working on a story about Triton, the world’s most murderous malware. Here’s why this malicious code is so terrifying. technologyreview.com/s/613054/cyber…
Previous “cyber-physical” malware like Stuxnet, which destroyed centrifuges at an Iranian nuke plant in 2010, targeted industrial equipment.
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Triton is the first time we’ve seen software deliberately created by hackers to put people’s lives in danger.
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Triton is the first time we’ve seen software deliberately created by hackers to put people’s lives in danger.
The malware is capable of disabling safety instrumented systems, which are the last line of safety defense in everything from petrochemical plants to public transport systems to nuclear power plants. 
