Stuxnet worm dates back to 2005

The Stuxnet worm, used to attack nuclear reprocessing plants in Iran, was targeting the country as early as 2005, say reseqarchers at security firm Symantec. The variant, which they have called Stuxnet 0.5, was being developed as early as 2005, five years before the discovery of the now-famous version of the worm.

Stuxnet 0.5, says Symantec, used Tilded platform code, rather than Flamer, and was less effective in its spreading capability and use of vulnerabilities than the later version.

"Until now Stuxnet was believed to be a project developed by people with access to Flamer components and not necessarily the whole Flamer platform source code. The discovery of Stuxnet 0.5 shows that Stuxnet's developers had access to the complete Flamer platform source code," says Symantec.

"Both the Flamer and Tilded platform code bases are different enough to suggest different developers were involved."

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