The Iranian authorities have to say about the Stuxnet variant Duqu. The country has special software written to spread the virus to fight, ” says a government official at state news agency IRNA.
The Duqu malware, which has strong resemblance to the Stuxnet trojan, is perhaps in a different guise used to the Iranian nuclear program to spy on. Iran sets across IRNA that the computers at the nuclear facilities in jeopardy, reports Reuters.
The country has reportedly developed software to detect the virus to ‘fight’. “We are now in the first phase. The list with the number of affected organisations is not yet complete,” says Gholamreza Jalali of the Iranian defence. Computer systems which are known may be because of the virus are affected, according to the government official checked.
The Iranian guard dog irCert made in april reported a worm which she Stars called. Stars would be attack using a kernel exploit to have focused on Iran’s Windows-based systems. In October and discovered Duqu-virus would be of the same exploit, an error in the processing of TrueType fonts by the Windows kernel, use. Duqu would be a variation of Stars.
According to security company Symantec, would the malware, in contrast to Stuxnet, not the sabotage of Iranian nuclear facilities, but the gathering of information to future attacks. The Duqu malware has been seen in the Netherlands and Belgium identified.