Researchers have renewed their call for help in cracking an "encrypted warhead" they believe it was unleashed by a powerful nation and may be poised to search and destroy a high-profile target.
The mysterious payload is contained in "Gauss," the malware with ties to Stuxnet and Flame that Kaspersky Lab researchers recently found. The researchers believe the secret code may be designed to disrupt SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems used to control equipment used by dams, gasoline refineries, and other types of critical infrastructure.
source : http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/researchers-seek-help-decoding-encrypted-warhead/; https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193781/The_Mystery_of_the_Encrypted_Gauss_Payload
