[Infowarrior] - Gauss: Virus Like Stuxnet Found, Russian Security Firm Claims

[Richard Forno]

(c/o JC)

Gauss: Virus Like Stuxnet Found, Russian Security Firm Claims

The Huffington Post  |  By Gerry Smith Posted: 08/09/2012 2:20 pm Updated: 08/10/2012 11:17 am

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/09/gauss-virus-stuxnet_n_1761107.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Security researchers on Thursday said they discovered a new computer virus that infected about 2,500 computers across the Middle East and
appeared to target banks in Lebanon.

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab, a Russian security firm, said the virus began infecting computers last September, but they did not discover it
until two months ago. The servers that controlled it stopped working in July, they said.

The malicious software -- nicknamed "Gauss" -- shared similarities with three other viruses that have been found in the region since 2009,
the researchers said in a blog post.


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