Kaspersky Discovers Gauss

Cybersleuths Kaspersky Lab, said the presentation of a cyber-weapon most secured apparently by the state nicknamed "Gauss", which seems to target banks and violent people in a variety of countries in the Middle East including Iran.

Kaspersky Malware describes this as "a Trojan Bank sponsored the nation-state, which bears the name of an unknown explosive", capable of flying knowledge of Windows systems return with an unknown, encrypted, combined waits for his execution.

It almost looks like the powers of the malicious software standard, but there's a lot to read about Kaspersky, starting cyber weapon that with the fact that Gauss to access the platform from the same development, which were in a row, designed, it seems that fire caused extensive history once it has been known (and Kaspersky Lab), in which only could.

If incorrect, with whom Gauss, because the junior partner in crime can be admired in the flame, where she was in the same way that we thought a small and a large part of the development of targeted malware Stuxnet used the program to undermine Nuclear Iran in 2010.

In fact, there is the potential that Gauss was operational due to the successors of times where you can admire the discovery of the latter, which could, in line with what Kaspersky finds that the activities of the former set of August to September 2011.

According to Kaspersky Lab were about 2,500 gauss infections were detected especially in Asian countries with the victims in Israel and Palestine. A small number of cases of infection were found in the U.S., UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and Germany.

The true extent of the activity of itself until the server displays the command and administration in a game analyzed {|} in additional details, he mentioned Kaspersky had detected excessive burden on those who alludes to a larger volume of the attack.

Why not attack Iran? it may be unclear. All weapons on the opposite list had more than a club for the country.

And why use a banking trojan? Due to theft of documents and observation (rather than money-stealing) is that the motivation may be, can steal bank log Gaussian, but it will fly together connections, and the words Password social media, email, IM and browser spreading via USB sticks and theft and monitoring system and the connected drives.

In addition, the file has been loose with a Firefox plug-in is set to focus on the diversity of banks in the region, and the Bank of the Lebanese capital, issued EBLF, BlomBank, ByblosBank, Fransabank and Lebanese Credit, Citibank and PayPal Kaspersky foregoing.