Erika Beras

They did this by managing to get a thumb drive into Iran and inserting malware into the computer network at the heart of their uranium enrichment program, the system that controlled the centrifuges.

All in all, Stuxnet reportedly destroyed a fifth of all the centrifuges that Iran was using.

It led to nuclear scientists getting fired.

And most importantly, it is widely believed to have slowed down Iran's nuclear program.

Just a tibia.

So year after year, Jags remained committed to figuring out his white whale, figuring out the puzzle of Fast 16.

Who made it?

Who were they targeting?

What exactly were they doing to that target and how?

But he didn't make much progress until earlier this year for a very this year reason.

JAGS sent a colleague to oversee these AI tests.

That colleague was Vitaly Kamluk, a Belarusian cybersecurity researcher who also has a fauxhawk.

He lives in Singapore and, according to JAGS, is very zen-like.

This, of course, is Vitaly Kamluk, reverse engineering legend.

Vitaly explained they're from the same era, the mid-2000s, and even though they don't share any code, they seem to share similar architecture.

But Vitaly couldn't figure out what exactly Fast16's mission was, only that it targeted the part of a computer that did complex math.

Jags says he's never seen malware that messed with high-precision math.

Most spy malware is designed to steal data or, like in Stuxnet, make things go haywire.

But this one was basically telling the computer 2 plus 2 equals 5.

After the break.