The computer security firm Kaspersky Lab announced this week that it had found a new cyber surveillance virus in the Middle East that is a descendent of the Stuxnet, Flame, and Duqu malware.
But they are not calling it "Son of Stuxnet." Stuxnet is the computer worm widely believed to have been
used by the U.S. and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear centrifuges.
Dennis Fisher,
writing on the Kaspersky blog Threatpost, said the new malware, discovered in June, had been named Gauss, after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
"Gauss contains some of the same code as Flame," Fisher wrote. "But is markedly different in a number of respects, specifically in its ability to steal online banking credentials and has an encrypted payload that experts haven't yet been able to crack."
