The government of the United Kingdom has issued a strongly worded denial of a report that the Sellafield nuclear complex has been compromised by malware for years.
It is not clear if those systems and networks are isolated, per the government response.
The rebuttal's info about the isolation of some of Sellafield's IT estate is also of dubious value, given that the most infamous attack on a nuclear facility - the Stuxnet infection of Iranian enrichment plants - is thought to have been carried out using removable storage devices to get across air gaps.
This Cyber News was published on go.theregister.com. Publication date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 07:13:05 +0000