Reuters – Iranian engineers have succeeded in neutralizing and purging the computer virus known as Stuxnet from their country’s nuclear machinery, European and U.S. officials and private experts have told Reuters. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security
Experts say Iran has “neutralized” Stuxnet virus
(Reuters) – Iranian engineers have succeeded in neutralizing and purging the computer virus known as Stuxnet from their country’s nuclear machinery, European and U.S. officials and private experts have told Reuters. The malicious code, whose precise origin and authorship remain unconfirmed, made its way as early as 2009 into equipment…
Duqu, Stuxnet malware developed by same group
The infamous Trojan software Duqu and Stuxnet were developed by only one group of malware developers, according to Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab. Photo credit: securityaffairs.co In fact, Kaspersky said the malware development team could already have developed other malwares using the same platform that was flexibly adaptable to specific…
Stuxnet and Duqu part of larger cybermalware campaign
The Stuxnet worm was built on the same platform used from 2007 onwards to create a family of cyber-weapon-like malware including the recently-discovered Duqu worm, a forensic analysis by Kaspersky Lab researchers has concluded. In a detailed analysis, Kaspersky’s Alexander Gotsev and Igor Soumenkov lay out the evidence for both…
Researchers: Stuxnet, Duqu Part of a Malware Arsenal Dating to 2007
Kaspersky Lab researchers think the powerful computer worms are based on a common driver-based platform used by a ‘team of developers’ for years. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Stuxnet virus could target many industries worldwide
Lolita C. Baldor Associated Press WASHINGTON: A malicious computer attack that appears to target Iran’s nuclear plants can be modified to wreak havoc on industrial control systems around the world, and represents the most dire cyberthreat known to industry, government officials and experts have said. They warned that industries are…
Conficker worm connected to Stuxnet, respected US expert claims
The Stuxnet malware was not only built to attack Iran’s nuclear program its assault was aided by the Conficker worm of 2008, a respected US security researcher has claimed. According to a Reuters report, John Bumgarner of the independent US Cyber Consequences Unit (US-CCU) has researched a number of connections…
Researcher links Stuxnet virus to Conficker
Did worm help sabotage Iran’s nuke program? View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms
Stuxnet Strike on U.S. Utility Signals Disturbing Trend
U.S. security experts say a variant of the Stuxnet computer worm caused the destruction of a water pump at a public utility in Springfield, Ill., last week. Discovered in June of last year, Stuxnet targets the Windows-based supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems developed by Siemens to control and…
New Duqu malware shares Stuxnet Trojan code similarities
Symantec Corp. researchers have revealed the presence of new malware that is strikingly similar to the dangerous Stuxnet Trojan, and could be a precursor to a future Stuxnet-style attack. Symantec Security Response researchers say Duqu (pronounced dyü-kyü), named because it creates files with the file name prefix “~DQ”, was first…