{"id":36474,"date":"2011-10-19T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T15:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=36474"},"modified":"2011-10-19T17:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T15:19:02","slug":"another-espionage-malware-program-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/36474-another-espionage-malware-program-discovered.html","title":{"rendered":"Another espionage malware program discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Symnatec\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/286761-Symantec\">Symantec<\/a> has revealed that on 14 October 2011, a research lab had alerted them to a new malicious program &#8211; which the security company has named W32.Duqu.<\/p>\n<p>The malware appeared to be very similar to Stuxnet, which is a worm that was discovered last year and found to target Siemens supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.<\/p>\n<p>Different variants of the worm targeted different Iranian organisations, and the target of the worm is widely suspected to be uranium enrichment programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Industry and analysts alike, have said that the emergence of Stuxnet is an indicator of cyber-crime moving from seeking fame and\/or fortune to espionage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"W32.Duqu: The Precursor to the Next Stuxnet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/connect\/w32_duqu_precursor_next_stuxnet\">Duqu seems to be based on Stuxnet<\/a>, Symantec said in a recent blog post, further explaining that it has a completely different purpose in that it gathers intelligence data.<\/p>\n<p>Symantec highlighted the following keypoints to Duqu:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Executables using the Stuxnet source code have been discovered. They appear to have been developed since the last Stuxnet file was recovered.<\/li>\n<li>The executables are designed to capture information such as keystrokes and system information.<\/li>\n<li>Current analysis shows no code related to industrial control systems, exploits, or self-replication.<\/li>\n<li>The executables have been found in a limited number of organizations, including those involved in the manufacturing of industrial control systems.<\/li>\n<li>The exfiltrated data may be used to enable a future Stuxnet-like attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new malicious programme &#8220;is essentially a precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack,&#8221; Symantec said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":36478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,1759,5872,3366,1411,1441,801,5870,411],"class_list":["post-36474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-cyber-attack","tag-cyber-espionage","tag-cyber-spying","tag-cyber-war","tag-cybercrime","tag-malware","tag-stuxnet","tag-symantec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36480,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36474\/revisions\/36480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}