18 November 2011

Duqu returns to Iran

HUA HIN, Thailand - Iran this week claimed it had detected Duqu malware on some of its computer networks. Duqu was discovered last month as a variant of the Stuxnet worm that wreaked havoc on nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic and was designed specifically to target industrial control systems.

Duqu appears to be a Trojan that facilitates remote access capabilities and gathers information in preparation for a major cyber-attack at a later time; it enters a computer via an exploit in Windows font parsing software that is triggered by opening an infected Microsoft Word document.

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