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Super-spy malware Duqu is back with new tricks, new hints at who wrote it

Posted March 21, 2012 - 2:02 pm

Symantec captured a new version of the module the Stuxnet descendant Duqu uses to penetrate new systems, but not the part that shows where it gets its orders. Kaspersky, meanwhile, cracked the mystery of Duqu's mysterious coding language and identified characteristics of the coding team that built it; nothing's sure, but the profile is consistent with government work.
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Duqu Trojan code confounds researchers

Posted March 9, 2012 - 12:18 pm

Similar to Stuxnet, the Duqu Trojan attacks industrial systems. But researches can't get a handle on the language used.
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Iran claims it will fill the skies with clones of crashed U.S. spy drone

Posted December 14, 2011 - 3:08 pm

Iran refuses to return the high-tech spy drone that crashed after what U.S. officials said was a malfunction. Though the downed drone was too smart for its mission in Afghanistan, the U.S sent an even smarter replacement, and crashed an older drone that had been chasing pirates.
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Crashed drone is a shot in ongoing cyberwar with Iran, not just a spy plane

Posted December 7, 2011 - 1:18 pm

Iran claims it shot down a U.S. RQ-170 spy drone, but won't release proof or say if a new Russian electronic counter-measures system brought it down. Killed or crashed, the drone is one shot in a a cyber/real war using malware, murder and explosive sabotage as weapons.
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Iran admits Duqu attack; denies report its nukes are for war, not power

Posted November 14, 2011 - 1:11 pm

The head of Iran's cybersecurity military unit said Iran had developed an antivirus tool that works against Duqu and the virus was under control. It was the first confirmation son-of-Stuxnet had appeared in Iran.
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Duqu may derive from STARS, the spy-virus Iran reported having been attacked by in April

Posted November 7, 2011 - 2:07 pm

The newly discovered Son-of-Stuxnet malware named Duqu may have been around longer than anyone thought.
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New version of Duqu even smarter than the last; 'Son of Stuxnet' may be a monster, not a virus

Posted November 1, 2011 - 5:15 pm

The newest version of intelligent, adaptable, multimodular malware Duqu is even smarter than the last version of Stuxnet 2.0, but is still apparently designed just for industrial espionage, which seems like wasting evil brilliance on building better moustraps.
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Iran connection makes strange bedfellows in support of OccupyWallStreet

Posted October 18, 2011 - 10:07 am

Far be it from any American to second-guess an Iranian theocrat on what it means to violently suppress an opposition movement, but that's not what cops are doing, just as regime change isn't what Occupiers are after. Even 'hikers' demand changes in rules, not governments.
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How does Stuxnet work?

Posted June 15, 2011 - 3:28 pm

Need to explain the risk of serious malware attacks for non-geeks without boring them? Try this explanation of Stuxnet from Australian TV news mag Hungry Beast.
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Security wonks accuse Siemens of underplaying SCADA risk

Posted May 24, 2011 - 2:31 pm

Siemens cancelled a talk on the risks in its industrial control apps last week, claiming a week later it was due to a failed patch. Analysts said Siemens is hiding facts to protect its reputation.
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Obama administration launches 'open, secure' Internet strategy

Posted May 17, 2011 - 10:20 am

The Obama administration is defining and asking for international support of its policy of supporting an open, secure Internet, despite its own tendency to clamp down.
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'Anonymous' attacks Iran, calls for volunteers to help U.S. tornado victims

Posted May 2, 2011 - 4:07 pm

Carrying on its policy of attacking what it considers oppressive governments overseas, the hactivist group Anonymous has taken down several Iranian government sites.
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Anonymous threatens to attack Iran

Posted May 1, 2011 - 1:09 am

The hactivist group Anonymous is threatening attacks against Iran in response to Bahrain's claims Iran attacked its ministries in support of Bahranian Shiite minority.
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Iran under virus attack (or the West under Propaganda Propagation)

Posted April 25, 2011 - 11:57 am

Iran's new virus attack may be real, or may be an effort by the guy who threatened Siemens with retaliation to increase public pressure by raising weekly alarms over cyberattack.
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Iran official threatens retaliation for Stuxnet

Posted April 18, 2011 - 1:40 pm

While angry Iranian officials shouting at the West seemed to reduce tension over attacks on their nuclear facilities, Americans started attacking their own utilities.
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Experts: Stuxnet is simplistic, kludgy, and about to crush you

Posted March 28, 2011 - 3:52 pm

Malware experts call Stuxnet techniques 'embarrassing;' virus-propagation experts predict knockoffs will start attacking everything in sight.
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Iranian hacker claims credit for Comodo, RSA penetrations

Posted March 28, 2011 - 1:56 pm

A single hacker claims credit for attacks far more effective than accomplishments of Iran's "Cyber Army;" does the west face an Iranian version of Anonymous?
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US infrastructure vulnerable to Stuxnet-style attacks

Posted March 24, 2011 - 11:53 am

A security researcher has issued warnings about flaws that would let four common SCADA apps to be hacked and controlled remotely.
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Cyberwar is coming, spy chief warns, but offers no help

Posted March 11, 2011 - 3:03 pm

The U.S. is ramping up its defenses against China, Iran and other countries waging cyberwar, but there may be big holes in their defense.
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Stuxnet is back, and Anonymous has it

Posted February 14, 2011 - 4:59 pm

The Stuxnet virus hit not one group in Iran, but five, all by direction. Now the 4Chan Anonymous hactivists claim to have source code.
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Israel spy chief: Cyberwar not as ugly as the real thing

Posted February 3, 2011 - 5:03 pm

The deputy PM in charge of intelligence and nuclear security admits nothing, but says killing computers is less tragic than killing people.
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Iran responds to Stuxnet by expanding cyberwar militia

Posted January 12, 2011 - 5:56 pm

Iran is expanding its huge youth militia by recruiting geeks for a renewed cyberwar effort aimed at the West.
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Google Earth Ticks off Iran, strips U.K. churches, takes crosshairs off Santa

Posted December 3, 2010 - 12:08 pm

Sometimes it's possible to know too much
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Stuxnet researchers cautious about Iran's admission of centrifuge issues

Posted November 30, 2010 - 3:45 pm

Iran on Monday apparently confirmed that the Stuxnet worm disrupted the country's uranium enrichment efforts, but one of the researchers who has dug deepest into the malware wasn't ready to call it a done deal.
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Iran nuclear scientist killed; Ahmadinejad claims Stuxnet sabotage

Posted November 29, 2010 - 5:21 pm

With Iran and Syria racing for nukes, and North Korea selling to all comers, it may be better to have a virus that can knock out someone else's nuclear plants.
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