Eric Chien and Liam OMurchu, Symantec; Nicolas Falliere
On October 14, 2011, we were alerted to a sample by the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The threat appeared very similar to the Stuxnet worm from June of 2010 [1]. CrySyS named the threat Duqu [dyü-kyü] because it creates files with the file name prefix “~DQ” [2]. We confirmed Duqu is a threat nearly identical to Stuxnet, but with a completely different purpose of espionage rather than sabotage.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings {181300,
author = {Eric Chien and Liam OMurchu and Nicolas Falliere},
title = {{W32.Duqu}: The Precursor to the Next Stuxnet},
booktitle = {5th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET 12)},
year = {2012},
address = {San Jose, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/leet12/workshop-program/presentation/chien},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}
