A few days ago I did a post that alleged that the Stuxnet virus had infected the International Space Station and quoted Eugene Kaspersky. I just received the following email from Sarah Bergeron of the Kapersky Labs:
On November 7, while talking with the press after his speech at the National Press Club of Australia, Eugene Kaspersky, illustrating how a network with no Internet connection might still get infected, mentioned an incident from 2008 in which computers on the International Space Station (ISS) were infected. That infection had nothing to do with the Stuxnet worm. The computers of the ISS were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG, or Trojan-GameThief.Win32.Magania – as per Kaspersky Lab’s classification. It is assumed that the virus got onboard the ISS via USB sticks or optical disks. Information about the incident was confirmed by NASA at the time and made publicly available, for example by the BBC and the Guardian. In its announcement in 2008 NASA stated that it was not the first time it had come across a virus on the space station.
I apologize for the misinformation but I’m not really sure it changes the threat of a global digital pandemic.