Did the U.S. government commission the recently discovered Flame malware? According to new research, the developers of the Stuxnet and Flame malware families crossed paths--swapping source code at ...

(Reuters) - Two leading computer security firms have linked some of the software code in the powerful Flame virus to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which was widely believed to have been used by the United ...

A new twist in the mystery that is Stuxnet/Duqu/Flame: Researchers now say Flame came first and has direct ties to Stuxnet, the targeted attack reportedly launched by the U.S. and Israel against an ...

Researchers from security firm Symantec have found and analyzed a version of the Stuxnet cybersabotage malware that predates previously discovered versions by at least two years and used a different ...

Was Stuxnet, a sophisticated piece of malware designed to attack industrial control systems (ICS), secretly invented by Israel to attack Iran’s industrial controls systems? Stuxnet code hints at ...

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There are some important strategic changes occurring in the national security landscape. A new kind of cyber attack has been noted, one that involves use of malicious code to attack infrastructure.

The Stuxnet worm targeted specific control systems in nuclear plants, according to researchers studying the malware. Researchers at Symantec confirmed Stuxnet was created to affect a control system ...

Duqu is primarily a remote-access Trojan targeted at a limited number of organizations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East to gather intelligence that can help plan a future attack. Duqu (pronounced ...

June 11 (Reuters) - A leading computer security firm has linked some of the software code in the powerful Flame virus to the Stuxnet cyber weapon, which was widely believed to have been used by the ...

Flowershop, Equation, Flame and Duqu appear to have a hand in the different phases of Stuxnet development, all working as part of an operation active as early as 2006. SINGAPORE – The infamous Stuxnet ...