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...

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program A Report by Kaspersky Lab Expert, Ryan Naraine says that the DUQU malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program. IrCERT Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Duqu is an upgraded version of "Stars". Back in April this year, The...

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program

Duqu malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program A Report by Kaspersky Lab Expert, Ryan Naraine says that the DUQU malware was created to spy on Iran's nuclear program. IrCERT Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team Duqu is an upgraded version of "Stars". Back in April this year, The...

Duqu Analysis and Detection Tool by NSS Labs

Duqu Analysis and Detection Tool by NSS Labs NSS Labs has built a new, free tool that detects known and newly created Duqu drivers that have infiltrated systems, thus allowing security experts to further analyze the "functionality, capabilities and ultimate purpose of DuQu.". The Tool is availabl...

Duqu Analysis and Detection Tool by NSS Labs

Duqu Analysis and Detection Tool by NSS Labs NSS Labs has built a new, free tool that detects known and newly created Duqu drivers that have infiltrated systems, thus allowing security experts to further analyze the "functionality, capabilities and ultimate purpose of DuQu. ". The Tool is availab...

Microsoft Mum On Duqu Fix In November

Microsoft said that its looking into a reported zero day vulnerability in Windows that was used by the Duqu malware to spread, but isn’t committing to a patch for the problem in time for this months scheduled update. “Microsoft is collaborating with our partners to provide protections for a...

Windows Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability Found in Duqu Installer

Windows Kernel Zero Day Vulnerability Found in Duqu Installer Duqu malware attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows kernel, according to security researchers tracking the Stuxnet-like cyber-surveillance Trojan. The vulnerability has since been reported to Microsoft and Microsoft i...

Duqu Installer Contains Windows Kernel Zero Day

A newly discovered installer for the Duqu malware includes an exploit for a previously unknown vulnerability in the Windows kernel that allows remote code execution. Microsoft is working on a fix for the kernel vulnerability right now. The exact location and nature of the flaw isn’t clear right...

Report: French Nuclear Company Areva Hit by Virus

French nuclear power group Areva was the target of a cyber attack in September, according to a recent post on the website of French business magazine L’Expansion. There were conflicting reports about the incident, which raises the specter of nation-backed spying. Some accounts, including one from...

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server Last week we update you about Duqu when Symantec said it had found a mysterious computer virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet, a piece of malware believed to have wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program. Two workers at a web-hosting company called Web...

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server Last week we update you about Duqu when Symantec said it had found a mysterious computer virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet, a piece of malware believed to have wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program. Two workers at a web-hosting company called Web...

India Seizes Equipment Linked to Duqu Attack

Officials in India have seized components from a server as part of an investigation into the Duqu Trojan, according to a report. According to Reuters, two workers at Web Werks, a web hosting company based in Mumbai, said the country’s Department of Information Technology took the equipment after...

NSA Director Says U.S. Working to Push Attack Data to ISPs

WASHINGTON–The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said that the federal government is working on a system now that would allow it to work with ISPs and others to help stop ongoing attacks against government and private networks by pushing intelligence and attack signatures to them. Gen. Keith...

New Analysis Questions Origins of Duqu Trojan

A new analysis of the recently discovered Duqu Trojan raises questions about the origin of the malware and its links to the earlier Stuxnet worm. The report, from Dell’s SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit CTU, was released Thursday. Analysts at SecureWorks studied the Trojan and found that, although...

The Mystery of Duqu: Part Two

Our investigation and research of Duqu malware continues. In our previous report, we made two points: there are more drivers than it was previously thought; it is possible that there are additional modules. Besides those key points, we concluded that unlike the massive Stuxnet infections, Duqu...

Stuxnet's Son "Duqu" Removal Tool released by Bitdefender

Stuxnet's Son "Duqu" Removal Tool released by Bitdefender Rootkit.Duqu is a new e-threat that combines the technology of the military-grade Stuxnet with an advanced keylogger and backdoor application. Due to its rootkit technology, the piece of malware can stay hidden from the user, the operating...

Using Stuxnet and Duqu as Words of Mass Disruption

The Internet is under assault by a highly sophisticated cyber weapon called Duqu designed by digital warriors to wreak cyber-havoc on the critical cyber-infrastructure of the Western world. Or else it isn’t. The emergence of Duqu this week has been accompanied by a huge amount of speculation and...

The Mystery of Duqu

First of all, we feel it necessary to clarify some of the confusion surrounding the files and their names related to this incident. To get a full understanding of the situation you only need to know that we’re talking about just two malicious programs here at a minimum – the main module and a...

Analysis: Duqu Targets Certificate Authorities

With virus researchers scrambling to decode a new piece of malware that is based on the code of the Stuxnet worm, an analyst at McAfee is speculating that the new worm, Duqu, may have been created to target certificate authorities. Writing on McAfee’s research blog, Guilherme Venere and Peter Szo...

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet The Stuxnet cyberworm could soon be modified to attack vital industrial facilities in the US and abroad, cybersecurity experts warned Wednesday at a Senate hearing. Computer security companies agree that these virus is unprecedented and it means the daw...