InformationWeek: 3 Lessons Learned From Duqu Malware
Emergence of a Trojan based on Stuxnet sourcecode highlights security challenges businesses continue to face.
By Mathew J. Schwartz
October 20, 2011
Why let good malicious code go to waste?
That appears to be the operating ethos of whoever was behind the Stuxnet cyberattack, given the recent appearance of Duqu--aka the Trojan application W32.Duqu--which is based on the Stuxnet source code. "Stuxnet source code is not out in the wild--only the binaries. Only the original authors have the source code. So, this new backdoor was created by the same party that created Stuxnet," said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, in a blog post.
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