The Stuxnet computer worm infected the International Space Station

A powerful computer virus, or rather a worm, allegedly developed by American and Israeli experts to attack nuclear facilities in Iran, has gotten out of control. The famous Stuxnet first spread through the Microsoft Windows operating system and targeted Siemens industrial control systems, and was considered the first malware that could simultaneously spy on and damage industrial systems.

Stuxnet even has a programmable controller, so it can even control the machines and computers it infects.

But that powerful computer worm "snuggled" into the Russian nuclear power plant, but even into - the International Space Station!

This information, according to media reports, was received last week by Eugen Kaspersky, the well-known creator of the anti-virus software of the same name, who was tipped off by a Russian colleague who works at a nuclear power plant.

According to the Israeli Times, Kaspersky discovered that the International Space Station had been attacked by a computer worm several times.

Although neither the nuclear plant nor the space station are connected to the publicly available Internet for security reasons, the virus reached the computer system of the International Space Station through an infected USB stick brought by Russian cosmonauts.