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Subject: [ISN] Is Iran just seeing Stars?
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2011-04-27 7:51:15
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.1104270251050.12796 () conundrum ! infosecnews ! org
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By Robert Lemos
CSO
April 26, 2011
An Iranian official caused a stir Monday, claiming the nation's
cybersecurity experts found another digital attack aimed at the Islamic
country's systems.
Calling the attack "Stars," Gholam-Reza Jalali, the director of Iran's
Passive Defense Organization, said that the attack was camouflaged as a
government file and that initial damage was slight, according to a
report from the Mehr News Agency. While Jalali made connections between
the attack and the sabotage committed by Stuxnet, the code has not been
analyzed by any security firm.
"If they have a sample of something and they are not sharing it with
anyone, then it is impossible for us to tell what it is, how serious it
is and really if it is even targeted toward them," says Kevin Haley,
director of Symantec's security response group. "So we are stuck with
just guessing until we can look at a sample and figure out what it is
doing and even if we have seen it before."
In July 2010, antivirus firms discovered samples of the Stuxnet worm, a
custom-built attack on Iran's nuclear program, but only after a
third-party security company had identified the attack as something
different. Finding the program referred to by Jalali is nearly
impossible without technical details, says Haley.
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