Zero Day tells the little-known stories behind the world's most destructive cyber attacks. Each micro-series covers error-defining cases, like Stuxnet, how it worked, how it was discovered, and what was done to prevent something like it from happening ever again.
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This opening episode covers how researchers uncovered Stuxnet in 2010 and traced the strange Siemens infections toward Iran’s Natanz enrichment plant. Show Notes Wired (public reporting): https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/ Kaspersky (public writeup): https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-stuxnet-sergey-ulasen-in-the-spotlight/
![[Stuxnet] Ep. 1: The Natanz Mystery](/_next/image?url=%2Fmedia%2Fcover%2Fimage.webp%3Fpath%3Dorg_01KB11FNVFKQ28576CGFP6B05G%252Fimage-1790114565969.jpeg&w=3840&q=75&dpl=dpl_8UcLEsVsshvg6B3iXGPHB11irvn8)
Episode two picks up from the Natanz mystery and covers how public accounts say Stuxnet reached highly isolated industrial networks through removable media and engineering systems. Show Notes Wired (public reporting): https://www.wired.com/2014/11/countdown-to-zero-day-stuxnet/
![[Stuxnet] Ep. 2: Across the Air Gap](/_next/image?url=%2Fmedia%2Fmux-thumbnail%2FF5jwneHCWk3Zc5MTmFziJvwWZ4sQR7YjyMKbae0001ROA%2Fimage.webp&w=3840&q=75&dpl=dpl_8UcLEsVsshvg6B3iXGPHB11irvn8)
Episode three unpacks the public picture of Stuxnet's complexity: modular design, multiple zero-days, and stolen code-signing certificates.
![[Stuxnet] Ep. 3: Built Like a Weapon](/_next/image?url=%2Fmedia%2Fcover%2Fimage.webp%3Fpath%3Dorg_01KB11FNVFKQ28576CGFP6B05G%252Fimage-1790114796365.jpeg&w=3840&q=75&dpl=dpl_8UcLEsVsshvg6B3iXGPHB11irvn8)
Episode four details how Stuxnet's payload class targeted industrial controllers tied to uranium enrichment centrifuges.
![[Stuxnet] Ep. 4: Target Locked](/_next/image?url=%2Fmedia%2Fcover%2Fimage.webp%3Fpath%3Dorg_01KB11FNVFKQ28576CGFP6B05G%252Fimage-1790114818315.jpeg&w=3840&q=75&dpl=dpl_8UcLEsVsshvg6B3iXGPHB11irvn8)
Episode five covers how the world reacted after Stuxnet and what industrial-control security practice took from it.
![[Stuxnet] Ep. 5: What the World Learned](/_next/image?url=%2Fmedia%2Fcover%2Fimage.webp%3Fpath%3Dorg_01KB11FNVFKQ28576CGFP6B05G%252Fimage-1790114844504.jpeg&w=3840&q=75&dpl=dpl_8UcLEsVsshvg6B3iXGPHB11irvn8)
