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A Global Campaign to Monitor the "Digital Weapons" Trade
techPresident FinSpy, for example, is a software created by the British company Gamma Group, and has been found in Turkmenistan, Brunei and Bahrain, countries that have been criticized for human rights abuses. Three Bahraini activists received emails containing … |
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Cost of Developing Cyber Weapons Drops from $ 100M Stuxnet to $ 10K IceFog
International Business Times UK The cost of developing sophisticated malware like Stuxnet and Flame has dropped dramatically in recent years from $ 100 million to just $ 10,000 – dramatically lowering the barrier to entry to the global cyber-arms race. These pieces of malware are … |
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Stuxnet Discovered To Contain Two Stealth Weapons
CIO Today … Langner posits this is due in part to contractors working at different customers and 'manually' spreading the malware versus exhibiting worm-like behaviour — Stuxnet had some very serious unintended consequences, namely: Duqu and Flame,” Shier said. |
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Cyber weapons grow in 2013
News24 "We're very confident that the Flame team shared some of their source code with the Stuxnet group," Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky said of the link between the two pieces of malware. "Although this worm has been studied by numerous antivirus vendors, … |