Stuxnet, Flame...Gauss: New spy virus found in Middle East

August 09, 2012 16:17

A new virus dubbed Gauss has attacked computers in the Middle East spying on financial transactions, emails and picking passwords to all kind of pages. The virus resembles Stuxnet and Flame malware which was used to target Iran, Kaspersky Lab says.

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Michael (unregistered) 14.08.2012 06:11

I forgot to say, a state sponsored virus most likely mean that the programmer who used thing like Xor 0xACDC was probably hating that music! My bet is that it was a fan of Beethoven but opted for rock music to hide his trace.

There is no place for this kind of emothion on a state sponsored program. My two cents bet.

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Michael (unregistered) 14.08.2012 06:06

First I have to apologise for my orthographic and syntatic fault on my previous post. (should it end up being showed up)

@Rin: I don't know I you saw that microsoft video about how stuxtnet performed its exploits. Should linux have the same unsafe "functionality" built-in then it would not be much less vulnerable than windows, though both operating systems have their weakness. Just make a search on youtube for 'The Stuxnet Worm analysis - Microsoft report', it's a 59minutes video.

By the way, Linux Torvald itself said in 1996 '…the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.'

One huge advantage when you have the source code (government have the source code of windows) is that you can completely remove unnecessary features, and have virtually infinite hardening possiblity, you can go as far as auditing the source code; though in the real world it induce a cost. Anyway if I am in need of a secure OS I would more look for Unix os like Solaris or OpenBSD. Or even better, Integrity.

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Michael (unregistered) 14.08.2012 05:46

INTERDIMENSIONALBEIN G (unregistered) wrote in #14
Gauss, if is not a measleading name, might also mean that there is a French conexión in this plot. _________
You are very naive to believe that a nation sponsored virus would leave such trace behind him. The french? where is the Poincare module, and the Galois? The latter would have a significant meaning since (by hoping I picked the right name) mathematicians tooks hundreeds of years to start understanding what they could do with his 'group theory'.
And I got to ask the same question again, where is the Euler modules? The creators had no taste for mathematics. :)
Back to the nation-sponsored viruses, it's clear that they did not used all the sauce available, they could have used completely new cryptography, non-standard compression algorithm, and used rc-4 instead of a mere 0xACDC Xor for encrypting mos data. I exactly mean what I want to mean: they used the minimal that is good enough to get the job done. Like doing md5sum -an algorithm broken many time even by flame- thousands of times of a directory, then some transformation for generating a key is not using the best cryptography availabe, but "good enough" to avoid its code analysed. For comparison, a worm named simile was relying on a genetic algorithm to decrypt itself, alone and without the key. Should that pat being choosen, along with some time-sensitive transformation, it would be hundreed of times worst than rc-4, which is relatively old; they could have simply used an enigma-based algorithm for most data, I would have challenged cryptanalist for a while, that's my definition of a "good enough".

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Mauricio Nascimento (unregistered) 10.08.2012 15:36

@Rin I didn't mean it, and of course there are few virus running on Linux Systems. As I stated before, the problem is within proprietary 'black-box' systems. With Linux, you can optimize the code to fits exactly on what you need.
I am not a linux fanboy, but a free software evangelist. I hope you are happy using linux to connect to the internet.
Cheers,

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Rin (unregistered) 10.08.2012 13:05

@Mauricio Nascimento brainless linux fanboy spotted. Sure, so the whole world migrates to Linux, meaning no one's gonna code viruses for linux? Bwahahahahahaha

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Mauricio Nascimento (unregistered) 10.08.2012 07:58

As I said before, that's what happens when you use Zionist proprietary software like Widowz. Linux is there for anybody to use anywhere.

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INTERDIMENSIONALBEING (unregistered) 10.08.2012 01:38

Gauss, if is not a measleading name, might also mean that there is a French conexión in this plot.

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A.Smith (unregistered) 09.08.2012 23:01

The Satanically evil Zionists behind this latest War effort against Iran once again places all users of the Internet at risk as other serial criminals decompile and disassemble this latest Apartheid Israeli created computer virus change where the stolen information is sent to and then repackage it to steal Americans financial information for them.

Ame rican citizens and business's have already paid out Millions to have the previous widely alleged Apartheid Israeli created computer virus's (Stuxnet,Duqu,Flam e Virus's) from their personal computers and business servers. The Stuxnet virus targeted Siemens electronic control modules on commercial equipment which is commonly found globally including in many business's across America. Perhaps someday the media outlets will inform USA Citizens how many workers were injured and possibly killed as a direct result of the Stuxnet virus corrupting a factory's Siemen's electronic control modules crushing a worker or suddenly activating massive blenders with workers inside of them etc.

Any number of serial criminal variants of Stuxnet,Duqu,Flame Apartheid Israeli created computer  virus's is undoubtedly going to be plaguing humanity on earth for decades to come. Who's laughing about that, the very same satanically evil Zionist serpents whose brothers and sisters created that nightmare on humanity.

Such soul-less, depraved and utterly immoral people should be eliminated from the face of the earth. Those are the very same ones who are crying about Iran building a nuclear weapon while Apartheid Israel not only practices it's Sampson scorch earth operation but carries it out.

Glob ally Boycott, Deinvest and Sanction Apartheid Israel for a peaceful, safer and more prosperous world tomorrow.

Cut-off all funding to the evil Zionist serpents and starve those snakes out.

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American (unregistered) 09.08.2012 20:01

The cyber wars have been ongoing, since 19 ?? s or thereabouts.

INFORMATION CONTROL.

Acce lerating, 1960s.  How to "own" the new order of the world's wealth, and information is exactly IT.

Viruses, worms, whatever the "matrix" chooses to "identify" as the "keyboard warriors," or call it a race for arms control alright, gulag virtual hide-n-seek.

Which digital "God" is in control of the operation final call?

Out not with a bang, but indeed a "whimper," no www?

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Taleghani (unregistered) 09.08.2012 18:52

Dr Ahmadinejad should not attend the upcoming conference of Islamic heads of estates in Mecca.Between the Iranian intelligence minister and Saudi intelligence officers,Dr Ahmadinejad has less chance of survival,than a fat lamb in the Arabian slaughter house.

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