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Levant) Well, what do you know? The makers of the infamous
Flame virus which targeted Microsoft computers in the Middle East, have come out with a new virus, again centred around the Middle East, and this one has been designed to target people logging onto internet banking. However, it is designed to target specific banks, all of which are Lebanese. The announcement by
anti-virus company Kaspersky also revealed that the virus contains an encrypted payload. But as of yet, nobody knows what its function is.
But get this, Kaspersky doesn't think that the purpose of Gauss is to steal cash, but rather to record and track individual computers and bank accounts. The theft angle would be incompatible with a nation-state attack, the company suggests, and it looks as though data collection was the motivation of its authors.
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