{"id":12525,"date":"2026-05-01T05:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/fast16-malware-html\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T05:03:40","slug":"fast16-malware-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/fast16-malware-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast16 Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Fast16 Malware<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Researchers have reverse-engineered a piece of malware named Fast16. It\u2019s almost certainly state-sponsored, probably US in origin, and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/fast16-malware-stuxnet-precursor-iran-nuclear-attack\/?_sp=72d58355-e351-43ad-ba73-bc2b546a30a0.1777128353268\">deployed<\/a> against Iran years before Stuxnet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then silently manipulating computation processes in certain software applications that perform high-precision mathematical calculations and simulate physical phenomena, Fast16 can alter the results of those programs to cause failures that range from faulty research results to catastrophic damage to real-world equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another news <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/pre-stuxnet-sabotage-malware-fast16-linked-to-us-iran-cyber-tensions\/\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of interesting details at the links.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/04\/fast16-malware.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast16 Malware Researchers have reverse-engineered a piece of malware named Fast16. It\u2019s almost certainly state-sponsored, probably US in origin, and was deployed against Iran years before Stuxnet: \u201c\u2026the Fast16 malware was designed to carry out the most subtle form of sabotage ever seen in an in-the-wild malware tool: By automatically spreading across networks and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,464,97,932,258,278,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-12525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-cybersecurity","category-hacking","category-iran","category-malware","category-reverse-engineering","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}