Symantec researcher sees Israeli hand behind Stuxnet

A Symantec researcher says Israel is the likely source of the Stuxnet worm that is wrecking havoc in Iran’s nuclear problem.

Liam O’Murchu said researchers had uncovered the reference to an obscure date in the worm’s code, May 9, 1979, which, he noted, was the date on which a prominent Iranian Jew, Habib Elghanian, who was executed by the new Islamic government shortly after the revolution.