PC Magazine - Security Watch: Flamer Isn't a Stuxnet Spinoff

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May 30, 2012
By Neil J. Rubenking

A new and seriously complex malware threat came to light this past weekend, targeting PCs in the Middle East. Some researchers and commentators made the natural assumption that it was connected with the Stuxnet worm which made news in 2010 by disrupting Iran's nuclear research. After all, when Duqu turned up in 2011, experts concluded it was indeed written by the Stuxnet crowd, or coders with full access to Stuxnet source. But like the song says, it ain't necessarily so.

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