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	"plain_text": "German nuclear plant hit by computer viruses\r\nBy BBC News\r\nPublished: 2016-04-28 · Archived: 2026-04-05 21:17:16 UTC\r\nThe viruses were found on the fuel rod modelling system and on 18 USB sticks used as removable data stores on\r\noffice computers.\r\nStaff found the viruses as they prepared to upgrade the computerised control systems for the plant's Block B,\r\nwhich is currently not producing power while it undergoes scheduled maintenance.\r\nMore than 1,000 computers have now been checked for infection and cleaned up, an RWE spokesman told\r\nnewspaper Die Zeit. The plant has also improved its security controls.\r\nNo system directly involved with the control of the nuclear reactors was infected, RWE said, and there was no\r\ndanger to the public as a result of the infection.\r\n\"All sensitive plant areas are decoupled and designed with redundancy and protected against manipulation,\" added\r\nRWE in a statement.\r\nAmong the viruses were two well-known malicious programs - W32.Ramnit and Conficker.\r\nRamnit debuted in 2010 and is a remote access tool that its creators use to steal data. Conficker dates from 2008\r\nand aims to grab login names and financial data.\r\nBecause the infected systems were isolated from the net, neither Ramnit nor Conficker were able to activate,\r\nupdate and steal data, said RWE.\r\nMikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, said power plants and other chunks of a nation's critical\r\ninfrastructure were often infected by viruses but such compromises did little damage.\r\n\"The most common viruses spread without much awareness of where they are,\" he told Reuters., external\r\nGundremmingen is about 120km (75m) northwest of Munich and the plant is Gemany's highest output power\r\nstation.\r\nSource: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36158606\r\nhttps://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36158606\r\nPage 1 of 1",
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