Community Alert - New Virus "Shamoon" discovered

Follow up for some more "Shamoon" info.....

Mystery malware that targeted energy group contains amateur coding goof

The date-comparison bug is further evidence that Shamoon isn't state sponsored.

The mystery malware that recently wreaked havoc on energy sector computers contains an amateur programming error that's not typical of state-sponsored attacks, security researchers said.

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"This error indirectly confirms our initial conclusion that the Shamoon malware is not the Wiper malware that attacked Iranian Systems," Kaspersky Lab researcher Dmitry Tarakanov wrote. "Wiper is presumed to be a cyber-weapon and, if so, it should have been developed by a team of professionals. But experienced programmers would hardly be expected to mess up a date comparison routine."

Evidently this malware was doomed to failure because of a date comparison error in the code.
(from: arstechnica.com...)