Attorney General Holder Announces Probe Into Cyberwar Leaks

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has issued an assignment to the U.S. District Attorneys to start an investigation into possible leaks of classified information, presumably by individuals within the Obama administration who recently spoke anonymously about the administration’s ties to the...

Attackers Can Use 'Self-Destruct' Feature to Kill Flame

The attackers behind Flame can easily clean up compromised computers, according to research by security firm Symantec who found that some attackers have been able to use command-and-control C&C servers to completely remove the malware from certain machines. According to a post on Symantec’s...

Flame Malware Raises Need for Open Talk on Use of Cyberweapons

The discovery of the Flame malware has raised a number of questions, some mundane, some interesting and many unanswerable at this point. But the point that’s most interesting also is the one that likely will go unaddressed for the foreseeable future, and that is, the need for a serious, open...

DHS Says No Evidence That Flame Targets Industrial Systems, But Urges Caution

In and advisory, the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial control System ICS CERT said that it doesn’t believe the Flame malware targets industrial control systems ICS or SCADA systems, but the group advised critical infrastructure owners to be on alert. The advisory, issued Wednesday,...

Face to Face with Duqu malware

Face to Face with Duqu malware Once again we discuss about Stuxnet, cyber weapons and of the malware that appears derivate from the dangerous virus. The international scientific community has defined a Stuxnet deadly weapon because been designed with a detailed analysis of final target environmen...

Newly Compiled Driver Shows Duqu Authors Still At Work

The still-unidentified group of attackers behind Stuxnet and Duqu have drawn quite a bit of attention to themselves in the last couple of years with their creations. Researchers, law enforcement and some particularly angry governments all would like to have a long talk with the crew. But that...

Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved

Mystery of Duqu Programming Language Solved An appeal for help from the programming community has allowed antivirus analysts to classify the unknown language used to develop key components of the Duqu Trojan. The sections responsible for downloading and executing additional modules in the Duqu...

Duqu's 'Mystery Code' Not New – Just 'Old School'

Researchers around the world put their heads together and solved the identity of ‘mystery code’ in the Duqu Trojan horse program, researchers from Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday. Weeks after announcing that they had discovered computer code of unknown provenance in the innards of the Duqu...

Mystery of Duqu Deepens As Researchers Ponder Unknown Programming Language

Segments of code within the mysterious information stealing trojan, Duqu, seem to have been written in an unknown programming language according to a new report from Securelist. Kaspersky Lab Expert, Igor Soumenkov claims that Duqu’s payload DLL initially looked like standard Windows executable,...

Duqu Trojan developed in unknown programming language

Duqu Trojan developed in unknown programming language Researchers at Kaspersky have reached out for assistance after an investigation into the Duqu Trojan uncovered a section that is written in an unknown programming language. The Russian security company says this new information could help them...

Iran will Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution

Iran will Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution According to latest report, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister announce that - Iran has prohibited import of foreign computer security software. Because International sanctions stopped Iran from obtaini...

Boldizar Bencsath

Boldizar Bencsath discussed several recent targeted attacks, including Duqu, an attack he experienced firsthand. Bencsath led a small group of researchers in September 2011 in the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security CrSyS of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, to identify...

Costin Raiu on the Timing of the Duqu Attacks

Threatpost editor Dennis Fisher and Kaspersky Lab’s Costin Raiu discuss the timing of the Duqu attacks, how that may hint at the identities of its creator and what other mysteries about the worm remain. RELATED Q&A Anatomy of the Duqu Attacks...

Wait ! It's not just Stuxnet or DuQu , Kaspersky reveals 5 more cousins

Wait ! It's not just Stuxnet or DuQu , Kaspersky reveals 5 more cousins Russian computer security outfit Kaspersky Lab said that the Stuxnet virus that damaged Iran's nuclear programme was likely to be one of at least five cyber weapons developed on a single platform. The viruses have never been...

The Appropriately Hyped Stories of 2011

It’s that most un-wonderful time of the year: the time when everyone writes fluffy articles full of lists, retrospectives and look-aheads. Even we did it. Many of these lists involve some variation on the theme of most overhyped or least organic or or most awesomest or lowest fat content. This...

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...

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...

Microsoft Patches Windows Flaw Exploited by Duqu

Microsoft on Tuesday released 13 security bulletins, including three for critical flaws in Windows Media and in the Windows kernel-mode drivers. The company had planned on releasing 14 bulletins in December’s Patch Tuesday shipment, but officials said that one of the planned fixes was causing a...

MS11-087: Vulnerability in Windows Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2639417)

The remote host is running a version of the Windows kernel that is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. Specially crafted TrueType fonts are not properly handled, which could allow arbitrary code execution in kernel mode. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by trickin...

Microsoft Previews Massive December Security Updates: 14 Patches, Including Fixes for Duqu, BEAST

UPDATE: Microsoft will release 14 security patches next Tuesday, including fixes for security vulnerabilities exploited by the Duqu and BEAST malware. The company released its monthly Advanced Notification for the December Security Bulletin, previewing 14 separate bulletins, three of them rated...