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Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology released a statement revealing that the organization had recently managed to protect its networks against a cyberattack.
According to Fars News, the ministry’s systems were targeted by hackers, but the countermeasures set in place by authorities proved... |
30 April 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Sources from within a US intelligence agency revealed that the Stuxnet worm was placed on computers located in Iranian nuclear facilities by double agents that utilized a cleverly designed memory stick to start the infection.
After, at the end of 2011, an expert from the United States revealed that Russia might be b... |
13 April 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Richard Clarke, former head of counterterrorism in the US, made a shocking statement. He believes that the Chinese may be placing backdoors on all the electronic devices they ship to US to ensure that they can later infect them with malware.
According to Gizmodo, Clarke claims that computers, laptops, Android device... |
30 March 2012
08:10 GMT |
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It turns out that Stuxnet, the piece of malware allegedly developed to target Iranian nuclear facilities, may have had a little help from some western countries.
A recent report reveals that Iran was sanctioned by international organizations and banned from obtaining anti-virus software, this leading to the infecti... |
21 February 2012
02:55 GMT |
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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
14:41 GMT |
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After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version of the Siemens SCADA programmable logic controls (PLC) operating in certain nuc... |
12 December 2011
07:16 GMT |
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The Hungarian security research laboratory team, CrySyS, the ones that first identified the controversial Duqu, discovered an installer for the threat that allowed them to precisely determine how the infection chain begins.
According to Symantec, the setup file was found in the form of a Microsoft Word document tha... |
2 November 2011
04:45 GMT |
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Bitdefender specialists came by a piece of malware which at first seemed to be nothing extraordinary, but upon further analysis it turned out to be a descendant of the infamous Suxnet that made all the headlines back in 2010.
According to MalwareCity, the malicious element called Win32.Duqu.A has a rootkit driver at... |
20 October 2011
07:37 GMT |
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security fears that attackers might use public knowledge about Stuxnet to create modified versions of the industrial sabotage malware to target critical infrastructure in the country.According to Wired, these concerns were expressed yesterday by Bobbie Stempfley, acting assistant secre... |
27 July 2011
10:46 GMT |
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A senior Iranian official accuses Siemens of willingly assisting the Stuxnet creators by providing the source code necessary for them to exploit its software.Iran's state news agency, the Islamic Republic News Service (IRNA), quotes Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali as saying the German engineering giant play... |
20 April 2011
01:30 GMT |
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The Anonymous collective Crowdleaks has published the decompiled code of a Stuxnet sample obtained by the Anonymous collective during their recent hacking of HBGary's computer systems.The code was uploaded to Github by an Anonymous a Crowdleaks member going by the name of Laurelai Bailey. A special @stuxnetsourc... |
15 February 2011
08:26 GMT |
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New research suggests that Stuxnet was planted on computers at five different organizations in Iran in the hope that it will spread towards the final target.By analyzing the timestamps collected by 3,280 Stuxnet samples, security researchers from Symantec were able to determine that the original infections were part ... |
12 February 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) denied that cyber-attacks targeting the country's nuclear programme has affected centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant."The viruses could not do anything to the Iranian centrifuges and did not affect the functioning of the Bushehr ... |
22 January 2011
05:49 GMT |
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Citing military and intelligence sources, the New York Times reports that Stuxnet was tested at Israel's highly guarded Dimona complex, which is believed to house the country's undeclared nuclear arms program.According to the publication, Israel has installed cascades of P-1 uranium enrichment centrifuges a... |
17 January 2011
12:01 GMT |
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According to researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro, the most remarkable threat for last year was by far the Stuxnet industrial espionage worm, which managed to get ahead other more long-running threats.Stuxnet was discovered this summer, but it is believed to have existed since mid-2009. It is widely consider... |
2 January 2011
15:30 GMT |
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A new report from the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) suggests that Stuxnet might be responsible for 1,000 broken IR-1 centrifuges replaced at Iran's Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP).It's a known fact that Stuxnet, the most complex piece of malware ever created, was designed to tar... |
27 December 2010
13:29 GMT |
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Security researchers warn that a new variant of a sophisticated rootkit dubbed TDL4 is leveraging an yet-unpatched privilege escalation vulnerability originally exploited in the wild by the infamous Stuxnet worm.TDL4 is the latest version of a rootkit originally known as TDSS or Tidserv, which appeared back in 2008.H... |
8 December 2010
04:40 GMT |
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted that several of the country's uranium enrichment centrifuges were affected by malware, indirectly positioning Stuxnet a strong candidate for the attack.During a press conference today, President Ahmadinejad was asked by journalists if the nuclear program was disrupt... |
29 November 2010
13:51 GMT |
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Hackers have released proof-of-concept exploit code for an yet unpatched Windows Vista and 7 privilege escalation vulnerability leveraged by the infamous Stuxnet worm.Stuxnet is a highly complex threat designed for industrial espionage and sabotage, which is widely considered to be the most sophisticated piece of mal... |
22 November 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec have uncovered new data suggesting that the infamous Stuxnet malware might have targeted uranium enrichment installations.Ever since its discovery in June, the Stuxnet worm has been a constant subject of debate in the security community, due to its never-before-seen complexity and p... |
16 November 2010
02:26 GMT |
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In its monster batch of security updates released yesterday, Microsoft included a fix for one of the remaining two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by the Stuxnet industrial espionage worm.This month's Patch Tuesday has seen a number of 16 security bulletins, covering a record-breaking 49 vulnerabilities locat... |
13 October 2010
10:17 GMT |
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BitDefender has released a stand-alone free tool capable of cleaning all known versions of the infamous Stuxnet industrial espionage worm from infected computers.Stuxnet was discovered earlier this summer and has shocked the world and the security industry with its features and sophistication.The worm is designed to ... |
8 October 2010
11:39 GMT |
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Security researchers revealed that there is at least one reference in the code of the notorious Stuxnet worm that would suggest a connection with Israel.The Stuxnet malware, which has been built for industrial espionage and/or sabotage, is already viewed as the most sophisticated malware ever created.The worm was dis... |
1 October 2010
05:15 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab reports that the number of hosts infected with Stuxnet in Iran has been slowly decreasing since July, but has spiked in Kazakhstan and Russia this month.The Stuxnet industrial espionage worm has been in the news a lot recently. Considered by many as the most sophisticated malware of all time, peopl... |
27 September 2010
12:43 GMT |
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Security researchers have disclosed yet another propagation routine used by the infamous Stuxnet worm, which is very similar to the binary planting techniques disclosed recently.New revelations keep on coming in the case of the Stuxnet worm, already considered by most experts the most sophisticated piece of malware t... |
27 September 2010
04:03 GMT |
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The recently patched vulnerability in the Print Spooler Windows service, exploited by the Stuxnet worm to spread, was disclosed along with attack code in a security magazine last year.Last week in the MS10-061 security bulletin, Microsoft patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability, identified as CVE-2010-... |
23 September 2010
02:08 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec revealed that computers infected with the Stuxnet worm are capable of communicating in a P2P-like network and updating each other.Until this summer, highly complex malware like the Stuxnet worm ony existed in theory. It is the ultimate industrial espionage tool and bears all the hal... |
20 September 2010
04:07 GMT |
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One of the security updates released by Microsoft yesterday addresses a previously undisclosed vulnerability exploited by the notorious Stuxnet malware, which also leverages two additional zero-day privilege escalation bugs that have yet to be patched.These new revelations, coupled with the previous findings about th... |
15 September 2010
06:56 GMT |
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It seems that the recently discovered Stuxnet rootkit, which shocked the security industry through its sophistication, hides even more secrets. According to Symantec, an in-depth analysis revealed that in addition to stealing trade secrets, the malware can also inject rogue code into SCADA systems, which are used to ... |
7 August 2010
05:59 GMT |
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Security researchers from ESET have found a new piece of digitally signed malware related to the recently discovered Stuxnet worm. The new threat was created last week and abuses a certificated from a different integrated circuits (IC) manufacturer called JMicron Technology Corporation.The hottest topic in the antivi... |
20 July 2010
04:10 GMT |
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According to Microsoft, the recently discovered piece of malware, which exploits a previously unknown Windows vulnerability, is most active in Iran and Indonesia. The software giant has also worked with Verisign and Realtek to revoke the rogue certificate used by the threat.The new malware, which Microsoft dubbed Stu... |
20 July 2010
03:15 GMT |
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