HOW TO HACK NUCLEAR REACTOR ISOLATED NETWORK WITH A SIMPLE GPU & RADIO SIGNALS

Isolated systems and devices (known as “air-gapped” systems) have been the subject of analysis by researchers and threat actors for years, as network perimeter security specialists said, which has generated a large number of variants and attack scenarios to compromise these systems.

One such attack is the one known as Stuxnet, a computer worm used at a nuclear company’s facility in Iran nearly ten years ago. That was the first time a hacker group showed that it is not impossible to compromise an air-gapped system.

Network perimeter security specialists mention that, on that occasion, threat actors (the attack was attributed to Israeli intelligence agencies) could have employed a malware variant that compromised centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant. In this regard, ethical hacking specialist Mikhail Davidov asked a question: while it is possible to inject malicious code into an air-gapped system, is it possible to extract data from these networks?

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