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Seven Charged With Clickjacking IRS, Apple Links to Tune of $14 Million (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)

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Seven Charged With Clickjacking IRS, Apple Links to Tune of $14 Million  —  Seven Eastern European men have been charged in New York with operating a clickjacking scheme that infected more than 4 million computers in order to hijack surfers trying to get to the iTunes store or the IRS.

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Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)

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Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe  —  Diagram of the Duqu malware, courtesy of Symantec.  —  A little more than one year after the infrastructure-destroying Stuxnet worm was discovered on computer systems in Iran, a new piece of malware using some of the same techniques …

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DHS Fears a Modified Stuxnet Could Attack U.S. Infrastructure (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)

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DHS Fears a Modified Stuxnet Could Attack U.S. Infrastructure  —  One year after the discovery of a sophisticated worm that was used to attack centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told Congress it fears the same attack could now be used against critical infrastructures in the U.S.

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Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its Way to Iranian Plant (Kim Zetter/Threat Level)

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Report: Stuxnet Hit 5 Gateway Targets on Its Way to Iranian Plant  —  Graphic showing clusters of Stuxnet infections during targeted attacks launched in 2009 and 2010.  Courtesy of Symantec.  —  Attackers behind the Stuxnet computer worm focused on targeting five organizations in Iran …

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