Iran had claimed to detected the Duqu computer virus. Its a very dangerous virus which is based on Stuxnet, "Cyber-weapon" discovered last year and believed to be aimed at destroy the Islamic Republic's nuclear sites.
Reported by the head of Iran's civil defense organisation, the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being checked and that Iran had developed software to combat the virus. Gholamreza Jalali from this organisation said, "We are in the initial phase of fighting the Duqu virus. The final report which says which organisations the virus has spread to and what its impacts are has not been completed yet. "All the organisations and centres that could be susceptible to being contaminated are being controlled".
Duqu virus was first detected by Symantec Corp in October and they said it had found a mysterious virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet. Duqu is essentially the precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack. While Stuxnet was aimed at crippling industrial control systems and may have destroyed some of the centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium, experts say Duqu appeared designed to gather data to make it easier to launch future cyber attacks.
Instead of being designed to sabotage an industrial control system, the new virus is designed to gain remote access capabilities, it said in a report issued last month. Iran said in April it had been targeted by a second computer virus which it identified as "Stars". It was not immediately clear if Stars and Duqu were related but Jalali described Duqu as the third virus to hit Iran.
Other report from Tehran said that Stuxnet had not inflicted serious damage before it was detected and blamed the United States and Israel for the virus which appeared to be aimed at crippling the nuclear programme they say is aimed at making atomic weapons, a charge Iran denies.
A report by International Atomic Energy Agency last week said that contained what it called credible evidence pointing to military dimensions to Iran's atomic activities, fueling demands in Washington and Europe for further sanctions. Iran dismissed the report as politicised and full of "lousy" and unreliable intelligence work. The speaker of Iran's parliament said on Sunday the assembly would "review" relations with the U.N. nuclear surveillance.
Reported by the head of Iran's civil defense organisation, the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being checked and that Iran had developed software to combat the virus. Gholamreza Jalali from this organisation said, "We are in the initial phase of fighting the Duqu virus. The final report which says which organisations the virus has spread to and what its impacts are has not been completed yet. "All the organisations and centres that could be susceptible to being contaminated are being controlled".
Duqu virus was first detected by Symantec Corp in October and they said it had found a mysterious virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet. Duqu is essentially the precursor to a future Stuxnet-like attack. While Stuxnet was aimed at crippling industrial control systems and may have destroyed some of the centrifuges Iran uses to enrich uranium, experts say Duqu appeared designed to gather data to make it easier to launch future cyber attacks.
Instead of being designed to sabotage an industrial control system, the new virus is designed to gain remote access capabilities, it said in a report issued last month. Iran said in April it had been targeted by a second computer virus which it identified as "Stars". It was not immediately clear if Stars and Duqu were related but Jalali described Duqu as the third virus to hit Iran.
Other report from Tehran said that Stuxnet had not inflicted serious damage before it was detected and blamed the United States and Israel for the virus which appeared to be aimed at crippling the nuclear programme they say is aimed at making atomic weapons, a charge Iran denies.
A report by International Atomic Energy Agency last week said that contained what it called credible evidence pointing to military dimensions to Iran's atomic activities, fueling demands in Washington and Europe for further sanctions. Iran dismissed the report as politicised and full of "lousy" and unreliable intelligence work. The speaker of Iran's parliament said on Sunday the assembly would "review" relations with the U.N. nuclear surveillance.
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