Cyberterrorism After Stuxnet

Public government statements have cited cyberattacks by terrorists as a major concern for national security.

To date, no large-scale cyber-terrorist attack has been observed, but terrorists are known to be using the Internet for various routine purposes.

The discovery of Stuxnet in 2010 was a milestone in the arena of cybersecurity because, although a malware attack on industrial control systems was long believed to be theoretically possible, it was different to see malware used in reality to cause real physical damage.

Stuxnet demonstrated that a sufficiently determined adversary with sufficient resources might be able to damage U.S. critical infrastructure physically through a cyber attack.

Did Stuxnet change the threat of cyberterrorism?