Boston: Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage.
Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that took credit for discovering the infections.
Kaspersky researchers said they have yet to determine whether Flame had a specific mission like Stuxnet, and declined to say who they think built it.
Iran has accused the United States and Israel of deploying Stuxnet....
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02:12 PM, May 29, 2012
Boston: US federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a US industrial system. The November 8 incident was described in a one-page report from the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center, according to Joe Weiss, a prominent expert on protecting infrastructure from cyber...
01:06 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Tehran: Iran said on Sunday it had detected the Duqu computer virus that experts say is based on Stuxnet, the so-called "cyber-weapon" discovered last year and believed to be aimed at sabotaging the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites. The head of Iran's civil defense organisation told the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being checked and that Iran had developed software to combat the...
08:14 AM, Nov 14, 2011
Idaho Falls: Behind the doors of a nondescript red brick and gray building of the Idaho National Laboratory is the malware laboratory where US government cyber experts analysed the Stuxnet computer virus. The malicious software targets widely used industrial control systems built by German firm Siemens. Cyber experts have said it appeared aimed mostly at Iran's nuclear program and that its sophistication indicates involvement by a nation state, possibly the...
01:44 PM, Sep 30, 2011
London: From the satellite pictures on Google Earth, Jinan looks like any other Chinese city - sprawling construction sites, massive factory blocks, apartment buildings, a university, dozens of railway lines and wide-open plazas. But according to the Internet giant, somewhere in the city - the capital of China's eastern Shandong province - are the computer servers used to try to steal the passwords of hundreds of Google e-mail account holders....
09:14 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Helsinki: Targeted cyber attacks will pose a growing threat to companies around the world this year after the Stuxnet worm hit Iran's nuclear programme in 2010, security software maker Symantec Corp said on Tuesday. "Last year was the year of high-profile targeted attacks. We will see so many more," said Sian John, security strategist at Symantec. So-called targeted attacks succeed as most consumers avoid clicking on suspicious links in spam...
11:54 AM, Apr 05, 2011
London: Attacks on computer systems now have the potential to cause global catastrophe, but only in combination with another disaster, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report on Monday. The study, part of a wider OECD project examining possible "Future Global Shocks" such as a failure of the world's financial system or a large-scale pandemic, said there were very few single "cyber events" that could...
11:52 AM, Jan 17, 2011
London: Al Qaeda scares airlines with parcel bombs worth $ 4,000. War with the Taliban costs the West billions of dollars a week. North Korea shells disputed land, winning instant fresh attention in a standoff with major powers. Weaker combatants have always used unconventional or inexpensive means to defy stronger foes, including guerrilla warfare and suicide attacks that depend on a greater willingness to sacrifice life. This approach can be...
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