Hackers have recycled a security error in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to contaminate PCs with the Duqu virus, Microsoft declares.
“We are working persistently to handle this problem and will issue a security update release for customers,” Microsoft whispered in a statement.
The Duqu virus that was exposed in October by Symantec is assumed by some specialists to be consequent huge cyber security risk. It shares a number of the code with Stuxnet, a malicious worm that targeted Iran’s nuclear program on the other hand Duqu is precisely twisted for collecting intelligence information from agencies and companies.
Microsoft’s speech failed to embody any further specifics; however Symantec revealed that Duqu was originally contaminating systems over a negotiated Microsoft Word document that mounts the malicious software in the computer system once it’s opened.
Duqu infections have presently been confirmed in various countries, comprising Switzerland, Sudan, Netherlands, Iran, India, France, Vietnam and Ukraine.
“We are working persistently to handle this problem and will issue a security update release for customers,” Microsoft whispered in a statement.
The Duqu virus that was exposed in October by Symantec is assumed by some specialists to be consequent huge cyber security risk. It shares a number of the code with Stuxnet, a malicious worm that targeted Iran’s nuclear program on the other hand Duqu is precisely twisted for collecting intelligence information from agencies and companies.
Microsoft’s speech failed to embody any further specifics; however Symantec revealed that Duqu was originally contaminating systems over a negotiated Microsoft Word document that mounts the malicious software in the computer system once it’s opened.
Duqu infections have presently been confirmed in various countries, comprising Switzerland, Sudan, Netherlands, Iran, India, France, Vietnam and Ukraine.
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