Fast16: Cyberweapon that predates Stuxnet by five years
64 points by dd23 2 hours ago | 16 comments

Retr0id 2 hours ago
The submitted article appears to be an LLM summary of https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-mystery-shadowbroker...
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dgacmu 28 minutes ago
Thank you for finding this - the original is a really interesting article.

(@dang - consider re-pointing to this?)

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DetroitThrow 5 minutes ago
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arcza 39 minutes ago
> This one did not destroy machines or blow things up. It corrupted the math.

This LLM style of writing has had it's day.

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andai 23 minutes ago
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/fast16_sabotage_malwa...

This one has some additional details, based on a talk given by one of the authors.

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dd23 60 minutes ago
No clue if the link that I posted is an AI summary. I also just found it somewhere.

But indeed many more details in the link you shared. Thanks for posting this!

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bpt3 57 minutes ago
I think LLMs would do a better job.

I was about to respond saying what a terrible article it was, as it reads as if the author has no idea what he was talking about. Attempting to paraphrase the original article would explain it.

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dataflow 40 minutes ago
I don't see how it can be an LLM summary of that page given that it mentions many things that your link doesn't.
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andai 21 minutes ago
It appears to be a summary of both the official SentinelOne article, and this one:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/24/fast16_sabotage_malwa...

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Retr0id 33 minutes ago
Such as?
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dataflow 31 minutes ago
Have you read both of them? There's a ton of stuff. "Advances in Civil Engineering", "TMSR-LF1", "Black Hat Asia"...
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codezero 40 minutes ago
My favorite part of this was:

That kind of notation, called SCCS/RCS, is the equivalent of finding a rotary phone in a modern office. Nobody uses it in 2005 Windows kernel code unless their programming background goes back decades, to government and military computing environments

The astrophysics lab I worked at in 2006 was still using svn and had a bunch of Fortran with references to systems from the 70s and 80s. The code ran perfectly well thanks to modern optimizing compilers and having moved from Vax to Linux in the 90s, it was a surprisingly seamless transition.

It reminds me of a conference talk I’ve referenced before “do over or make due” basically implying rewriting large amounts of mostly functioning code was not worth the effort if it could be taped together with modern tools.

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trebligdivad 54 minutes ago
Haha it's a fun finding though; The source control comment feels a little off; I'm sure there were SCCS (hmm or did cvs use similar?) still around at that time.
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slim 26 minutes ago
sabotaging science must be the most morally corrupt thing you can do as a civilisation
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jabedude 4 minutes ago
Spying on and sabotaging weapons development of foreign adversaries is a completely normal government function
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Cthulhu_ 11 minutes ago
Nah; it's to prevent a country from developing a superweapon and possibly triggering WW3 / worldwide nuclear annihilation.

This comment is very exaggerated, I can think of a few more "morally corrupt" things to do.

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