Buggy Win 95 Code Almost Wrecked Stuxnet Campaign

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By timothyApr 24, 2015, 8:25 pm376 pts
mask.of.sanity writes: Super-worm Stuxnet could have blown its cover and failed its sabotage mission due to a bug that allowed it to spread to ancient Windows boxes, malware analysts say. Stuxnet was on the brink of failure thanks to buggy code allowing it to spread to PCs running older and unsupported versions…

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