International Space Station Infected With USB Stick Malware Carried on Board by Russian Astronauts

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/521246/20131111/international-space-station-infected-malware-russian-astronaut.htm

By David Gilbert
ibtimes.co.uk
November 11, 2013

Russian security expert Eugene Kaspersky has also told journalists that 
the infamous Stuxnet had infected an unnamed Russian nuclear plant and 
that in terms of cyber-espionage "all the data is stolen globally... at 
least twice."

Kaspersky revealed that Russian astronauts carried a removable device into 
space which infected systems on the space station. He did not elaborate on 
the impact of the infection on operations of the International Space 
Station (ISS).

Kaspersky said he had been told that from time to time there were "virus 
epidemics" on the station.

Kaspersky doesn't give any details about when the infection he was told 
about took place, but it appears as if it was prior to May of this year 
when the United Space Alliance, the group which oversees the operaiton of 
the ISS, moved all systems entirely to Linux to make them more "stable and 
reliable."

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