US, Israel Used Dutch Spy to Launch Stuxnet Malware Against Iran

The Stuxnet virus that attacked the Iranian nuclear programme in 2008 cost $1bn to develop, according to a two-year investigation by Dutch newspaper Volkskrant. The report claimed a Dutch spy, Iranian engineer Erik van Sabben, installed the malware in a water pump in an underground nuclear facility, delaying the Iranian programme by several years. Van Sabben died in a motorcycle accident two weeks after the virus was deployed.