Analysis Challenges Stuxnet Origins Story, Suggests Links to Duqu and Other Malware

An ongoing analysis of the Duqu malware by researchers at Kaspersky Lab finds many links between the two pieces of malicious code and casts doubt on the conventional wisdom about Stuxnet’s origins. An analysis of software drivers used by both Stuxnet and the later Duqu malware has found that the...

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks An Iranian official says the country has transferred the location of most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting agencies to new computer facilities inside the country to avert potential cyber attacks...

Not Again! Duqu Hits Iran

Pity poor Iran. They can’t catch a break. After cleaning up the mess Stuxnet wreaked on their nuclear ambitions, the Middle Eastern country admitted in November that a number of machines across multiple industries were infected with Duqu. While academic arguments raged over whether similarities i...

Stuxnet Finger Pointing

Stuxnet debuted with a frenzy in 2010 after researchers exposed the malware already busily disrupting Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. That was followed this past year by continued speculation, finger pointing and even some dismissive attitudes about the worm, which targets Siemens-made...

Attacks Against Oil Conglomerates Ramping Up, Execs Claim

Executives for some of the world’s largest oil companies stressed that cyber attacks against their companies are becoming more strategic and happening more frequently at a conference last week, according to a report today from the BBC. At the 20th World Petroleum Congress in Doha, Qatar, one of...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially 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 o...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially 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 o...

Was The Three Character Password Used To Hack South Houston's Water Treatment Plant A Siemens Default?

Siemens said on Tuesday that it is working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to investigate a cyber intrusion into a water treatment plant in South Houston, Texas, but couldn’t confirm that a default, three digit password hard coded into an application used to control the company’s...

How the Duqu Authors May Have Erred

Duqu has been called the spawn of Stuxnet, or maybe some sort of stepchild or second cousin. That initial analysis came from some similarities in the code of the two attack tools, and now that researchers have had more time to pull Duqu apart and see how it works, it seems more and more likely th...

Anatomy of the Duqu Attacks

Stuxnet has become the bogeyman of Internt security and cyberwar, showing up in marketing pitches, PowerPoint presentations and press releases from Washington to Silicon Valley to Tehran. But while Stuxnet has been garnering headlines for more than a year now, the far more serious threat in terms...

Costin Raiu on Duqu, Stuxnet and Targeted Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with malware researcher Costin Raiu about the investigation into Duqu, the likelihood that it was written by the same team as Stuxnet, whether a government is behind its development and what mistakes the authors made. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

Researchers 'Convinced' Duqu Written By Same Group as Stuxnet

Researchers are fairly confident now that whoever wrote the Duqu malware also was involved in some way in developing the Stuxnet worm. They’re also confident that they have not yet identified all of the individual components of Duqu, meaning that there are potentially some other capabilities that...

Stuxnet 3.0 to be possibility released at MalCon?

Stuxnet 3.0 to be possibility released at MalCon? Malware coders and security researchers are increasingly looking at MalCon malware convention to show-off their latest creations and research. We were pretty shocked to see in a twitter update today from MalCon, that one of the research paper...

Stuxnet 3.0 to be possibility released at MalCon?

Stuxnet 3.0 to be possibility released at MalCon? Malware coders and security researchers are increasingly looking at MalCon malware convention to show-off their latest creations and research. We were pretty shocked to see in a twitter update today from MalCon, that one of the research paper...

Stolen Government Certificate Used to Sign Malware

F-Secure researchers claim that malware spreading via malicious PDF files is signed with a valid certificate stolen from the Government of Malaysia, in just the latest evidence that scammers are using gaps in the security of digital certificates to help spread malicious code. The malware,identifi...

CrySyS Duqu Detector Open source Toolkit Released

CrySyS Duqu Detector Open source Toolkit Released Two weeks ago Researchers at the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security CrySyS in Hungary confirmed the existence of the zero-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel, according to security researchers tracking the Stuxnet-like...

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the...

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the...

Researchers Warn of Prison Hacks, Opening Cell Doors

In news that seems like it could be lifted from an old 24 or Prison Break plotline, authorities are concerned by new research that claims hackers could remotely open the cell doors of federal prisons. In addition to staging a jailbreak, hackers could sabotage a prison’s intercom system and...

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ?

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ? Article by : Nidhi Rastogi is a Cyber security professional based in New York. Article shared from THE HACKER NEWS magazine - November Edition. You can download Complete Magazine here. Barely a year into discovering Stuxnet, the world recently saw its powerf...