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Stuxnet
We probably want an article about Stuxnet. The Stuxnet Sting - Microsoft Malware Protection Center - Site Home - TechNet Blogs My writing is no good, so consider this ref my contribution. ;) --DanielPharos (talk) 22:18, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Second the motion. 2 variants and it runs from USB stick even with autorun disabled; preliminary reports are that this is true Cyber-terrorism and the target may be military/government. Detected by Sophos, MS, CA, f-Secure, Symantec, Avira, McAfee, kaspersky, Trend Micro, Panda, Norman, Dr. Web, Ikarus, BitDefender, avast!, AVG, ESET, PCTools, GData, AhnLab, Fortinet; reported by Forbes, krebs, CNet, TechRepublic, and others. Most detect as "worm", "trojan", or "rootkit", a few detect as random "virus"/"malware". No MS Patch as yet, but there is a MS workaround. See these:
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2286198.mspx
- http://www.avira.com/en/threats/section/details/id_vir/5313/tr_drop.stuxnet.a.5.html (comprehensive page from Avira including competitors alias's and affected OS list)
- http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/07/19/new-windows-bug-offers-hackers-an-attack-shortcut/
- http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2010/07/15/windows-day-vulnerability-shortcut-files-usb/
- http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/viruses-and-spyware/w32stuxnetb.html
- http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Search.aspx?query=stuxnet
- http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001993.html
- http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/virusinfo/virus.aspx?id=118560
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/w32stuxnet-network-information
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blog-tags/w32stuxnet
- http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/07/experts-warn-of-new-windows-shortcut-flaw/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+KrebsOnSecurity+%28Krebs+on+Security%29
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20011095-83.html
all accessed as posting this comment (not logged in as accessing from public) VulpineLady 71.3.146.143 (talk) 19:45, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
I started an article: Stuxnet --Wikieditoroftoday (talk) 01:20, 17 September 2010 (UTC)