Even though the vulnerability leveraged by the Duqu malware was addressed five months ago, Microsoft found that the same piece of code was being utilized in other products. As a result, the May 2012 security bulletins issued by the company fix a number of applications that contained the code. The security hole exist... |
9 May 2012
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Symantec researchers came across a driver file which appears to be a component of the infamous Duqu malware. The new driver was compiled on February 23, 2012, and it represents only a small part of the overall attack code. The role of the driver is to load the rest of the threat after the computer restarts. Currentl... |
21 March 2012
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On March 7, Kaspersky Lab experts revealed that after analyzing Duqu’s framework they were unable to precisely determine what programming language had been used to develop it. Now they think they have the answer and they say that it’s most likely a custom object oriented C called “OO C”.
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19 March 2012
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F Sharp, Iron Python, CPLEX LIB, High-Level Assembly, LISP, Erlang are just a few of the names of programming languages in which Duqu’s framework could be written. It’s uncertain yet which one it is, but one thing is clear, the malware’s framework looks different from anything else previously analyz... |
8 March 2012
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After the extensive analysis of a large number of Stuxnet and Duqu drivers, Kaspersky Lab experts concluded that the two Trojans, along with other pieces of malware, were created by the same team, using a platform called Tilded, created around 2007-2008. They believe that Tilded (named so because its authors tend to... |
30 December 2011
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The much awaited December security update released by Microsoft comes with 13 security bulletins that fix three critical security flaws, including the one utilized by the now infamous Duqu malware.
The manner in which TrueType fonts were handled in Windows kernel-mode drivers allowed for Duqu to make its way onto a ... |
14 December 2011
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Latest discoveries related to the Duqu malware reveal that it might actually be an upgraded version of Stars, a malicious software that was detected as targeting Iranian federal computers back in April.
Kaspersky Lab experts report that at the time some of the targets currently hit by Duqu were attacked using the sa... |
7 November 2011
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Microsoft plans to release four security bulletins next week as a part of its monthly patch cycle, but an update designed to fix the critical zero-day vulnerability exploited by the Duqu malware won’t be among them.
Jerry Bryant, group manager, Response Communications Trustworthy Computing Group, confirmed th... |
4 November 2011
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While a security update for the Critical zero-day vulnerability in Windows kernel exploited by the Duqu malware is not yet available, Microsoft has reacted quite fast to enable customers to at least deploy a temporary solution until it releases an official patch. The automatic fix currently being offered to all Win... |
4 November 2011
04:06 GMT |
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Microsoft is hard at work to patch a zero-day security vulnerability that was confirmed to play a key role in recent attacks involving the Duqu malicious code. Believed to be related to Stuxnet, Duqu infects machines by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in the Windows kernel. The new piece of malware w... |
2 November 2011
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