iT News: Researcher links Stuxnet virus to Conficker

Did worm help sabotage Iran's nuke program?

By Jim Finkle
Dec 5, 2011

A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious "worm" that surfaced in late 2008 and infected millions of PCs.

Conficker was used to open back doors into computers in Iran, then infect them with Stuxnet, according to research from John Bumgarner, a retired US Army special-operations veteran and former intelligence officer.

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