A group of NATO researchers say the Stuxnet attacks were an illegal act of force against Iran, as is outlined in a new manual that makes international law applicable to cyber warfare.
The earliest version of Stuxnet we knew of dated back to 2009. Today, Symantec uncovered an earlier malware thought to be Stuxnet 0.5, created in 2005.
An Air Force commander is bringing to light concerns the government has over a growing cyber offense in Iran, promising that the Defense Department will soon add 1,000 people to the Air Force's "cyber" department.
A news outlet in Iran says that the Stuxnet virus attacked two of its facilities -- a power plant and the Culture Ministry -- and believes the U.S. and Israel are behind the strike.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is freaked out, and for good reason. He advised America today that the country is in danger of a cyber attack that could end in civilian death.
Flame, the malware related to the infamous Stuxnet that hit Iranian nuclear systems in 2010, may have three sisters in the wild, according to new research by Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab.
Researchers at security firms Kaspersky Lab and Crysys Lab released tools today to detect if your computer is infected by the Gauss virus, a piece of malware that focuses on stealing bank account login credentials.
A purported Iran scientist working for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran e-mailed an SOS to F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen this weekend, saying the AEOI was under a cyber attack.
Hypponen, who is well-regarded in the security community, …
While security researchers have uncovered many things about the Flame malware, one big question has remained unresolved: Who created it?
They might not be surprised by the answer. According to anonymous Western officials, Flame was the work of the governments …
Thirty percent of the world’s nuclear power is produced in the United States at 104 reactors concentrated on the Eastern seaboard. What if the Flame and Stuxnet viruses that wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear efforts were repurposed by unfriendly nations …
The Flame backstory keeps getting fleshed out. And the latest development is a doozy.
Researchers at security company Kaspersky Labs have discovered that portions of the Flame malware are nearly identical to parts of the famed Stuxnet worm discovered in …
It’s been rumored for some time that the Stuxnet virus, which attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2010 before escaping and wreaking havoc on the public Web, was a joint effort between the U.S. and Israel. But, aside from security firm …
Update: The United Nations is sending out a warning to member countries about cyberwar tool Flame.
Iran has confirmed the presence of a new and highly complex piece of malware targeted at Middle Eastern countries. The virus, called …
An extremely complex virus infecting computers in the Middle East called Flame was made public today. It’s being likened to the Stuxnet virus, which attacked Iranian nuclear systems in 2010.
“Flame can easily be described as one of the most …
Iran shut down Internet access to its oil terminals today following a cyber attack that is said to have begun on Sunday afternoon.
The Oil Ministry shut down Internet access to all of its oil facilities, operations, and rigs soon …
Stuxnet has been called the most sophisticated computer worm ever created. We know there are siblings to the malware which took down Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, but now Kaspersky labs is saying there may be up to four other worms in …
One Christmas Eve, security consultant John Strauchs received a call about a new maximum security system he’d installed in a US prison. “All the doors popped open on death row,” said the person on the other end.
Strauchs’ (pictured below, …
If you want to buy a million email addresses from criminal hackers, the going rate is $25, according to a second quarter report from antivirus firm McAfee.
The new McAfee Q2 2011 Threats Report also shows that mobile malware is …
Stuxnet, the computer worm that spread among industrial machinery, is commonly believed to have been created by Israeli and American intelligence forces to take down the nuclear weapons machinery in Iran.
The New York Times delved into that topic today …
Confirming months-long suspicions, Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad admitted today that his country’s uranium enrichment centrifuges had been affected by a malicious computer worm. Western Diplomats said last week that the Stuxnet virus had damaged Iran’s centrifuges, which could be used …
