Son of Stuxnet? Researchers Warn of Impending Cyber Attack

An unnamed Europe-based research lab have recently discovered a new virus nearly identical to cyber superweapon stuxnet lurking on systems in europe. This new variant shares much of the same code as the original stuxnet. But rather than sabotage, it seems to have been assigned a new task of information gathering on crucial infrastructure control systems. A copy of the new virus code, named 'Duqu' has been sent to security giants Symantec for analysis who are warning that this may be a precursor to an unprecedented cyber attack.

A new computer virus using "nearly identical" parts of the cyber superweapon Stuxnet has been detected on computer systems in Europe and is believed to be a precursor to a new Stuxnet-like attack, a major U.S.-based cyber security company said today. Stuxnet was a highly sophisticated computer worm that was discovered last year and was thought to have successfully targeted and disrupted systems at a nuclear enrichment plant in Iran. At the time, U.S. officials said the worm's unprecedented complexity and potential ability to physically sabotage industrial control systems -- which run everything from water plants to the power grid in the U.S. and in many countries around the world -- marked a new era in cyber warfare.

Who is behind all this is unclear. Are the foundations being laid for a massive cyber attack on the west by some country or group who have somehow managed to get access to the original stuxnet? Or maybe we are being set up for a false flag attack by our own governments. Whatever is going on the threat is very real and disturbing.

"Right now it's in the reconnaissance stage, you could say," Symantec Senior Director for Security Technology and Response, Gerry Egan, told ABC News. "[But] there's a clear indication an attack is being planned."

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Anonymous just may have been very busy...... I rather hope not. They haven't proven themselves to attract the pillars of responsibility when it comes to judgement. I'd rather not consider they have people under the banner collecting intricate details of critical infrastructure. If the power dumps because they spin turbines out of control and right off the floors they are bolted to for example, people die.

If it's not them.....then just maybe security to defeat the ways one might exploit access and this data would be a real dandy idea right about yesterday. Europe's financial crisis will seem like a minor hiccup in the road of life if the space shots of Earth at night suddenly show a dark Euro-Zone for an extended period.

Maybe Iran created it as a false flag to attack its own nuclear facilities
so that they would be less scrutinized when they released the stuxnet 2.0
on other countries..

Disturbing to say the least, hopefully it does not attack our pc's

Maybe the fact that we call ourselves technologically advanced and still suffer from silly things like this is the real stuff worth pondering.

Stuxnet was created by teh CIA and Mossad and used in Iran and in Fukushima. Israel did a security update on Fukushima's computers. Its just a joke! But its always on us until the real justice, then they'll really see. All those people, families and children murdered by their earthquake and tsuami,and all the radiation and having to deal with every single person's pain and torment, and all fo their families, and the whole world for having their true lights tarnished and people's free willl taken. We all get hurt one by one. Not so the ones doing this to us. They think they serve higher powers as catalysts, nope. No such thing. Goodness doesnt harm, ever. I wouldnt want a 1000 people's suffering and death or a million on my hands, like these dark siders seem to do. Everything like this you do to another you do to yourself.

So now, the other side is using it or the same? And for what reason?