The origins of the dangerous Stuxnet computer virus that targeted Iran’s nuclear power program last year could date back as far as 2007, according to new research....
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Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) has released a temporary fix for the Windows flaw exploited by Duqu, the Stuxnet-related malware believed to have been created for industrial cyber-espionage. In releasing the workaround late Thursday, Microsoft officially confirmed the existence of the zero-day vulnerability...
Security vendor Kaspersky Lab has identified infections with the new Duqu malware in Sudan and, more importantly, Iran, the main target of the Trojan’s predecessor — Stuxnet. Duqu took the security industry by storm last week when the Hungarian research laboratory Crysys shared its ana...
The latest super Trojan virus, Duqu, is likely the brainchild of a government security apparatus. And it’s that government’s best work yet, Kasperky Lab malware expert Sergey Golovanov told Forbes on Friday. “Right now we are pretty sure that is the next generation of Stuxnet,” Golovanov sai...