The story is rather speculative but the code writers of the high targeted Stuxnet malware would most likely have required very specialist knowledge. The main thrust of the story was that the Stuxnet malware was used to target a particular SCADA/PLC network (or even an individual PLC) to cause the destruction of the plant being process controlled by that PLC by recognising a particular process variable or subroutine name. This would have required detailed knowledge of the Programmable Logic Control ladder logic program of the targeted system.

Of course if the Bushehr nuclear plant attack was successful then no doubt it would have made the CNN nightly news.

But looking back at recent high profile news stories of things going bang then the Transocean Mexican Gulf Oil disaster could easily have been the target especially when you consider that the Siemens WinCC Simatic SCADA process control software systems are heavily used by Transocean.

Now there would be a juicy Hollywood conspiracy theory. An Israeli Mossad attempt to destroy an Iranian Nuke plant accidentally results in the worst environmental disaster in US history simply because the process name DEADF007 in a SCADA PLC control system happens to be common to both the Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig and the Iranian Bushehr Nuke plant.