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Duqu

Duqu is a collection of computer malware discovered on 1 September 2011, thought by Kaspersky Labs to be related to the Stuxnet worm and to have been created by Unit 8200. The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS Lab) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary discovered the threat, analysed the malware, and wrote…

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Relationship to Stuxnet

Microsoft Word zero-day exploit

Purpose

Command and control servers

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Duqu

Nodes50
Edges49
Triples86
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.04
Components1

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Duqu

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related to Relationship to Stuxnet · 20
Duqu → August, C-Media, Chief Research Officer, CrySyS, Dr Thibault Gainche, Duqu's, F-Secure, F-Secure's, Hyppönen, JMINET7, Mikko Hyppönen, October, Stuxnet, Stuxnet's MRXCLS, Symantec, SYS, Taipei, Taiwan, The, Tilde-d
related to Microsoft Word zero-day exploit · 15
Duqu → AKA, CrySyS Lab, December, DLL, Like Stuxnet, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Word, MS11-087, November, T2EMBED, The, The Duqu, TrueType, Win32k TrueType
related to history · 14
Duqu → CrySyS, During, Hubble, In April, Iran, Iranian, It, JPEG, Kaspersky, Since, Stars, Stuxnet, Symantec, The Duqu
related to Command and control servers · 10
Duqu → Belgium, CentOS, China, Germany, India, It, Kaspersky, Philippines, Servers, Some
related to Purpose · 10
Duqu → According, Duqu's, However, Initial, Internal, Its, JPEG, McAfee, Security, Symantec
related to Nomenclature · 9
Duqu → DLL, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Windows, Operation Duqu, Operation Stuxnet, The, This, TrueType-font, While
is a · 2
Duqu → collection of computer malware discovered on 1 September 2011, process of only using Duqu for unknown goals

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stuxnet malware related control used information microsoft symantec crysys 2011 system files command servers zero-day digital attack stars virus systems

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Duquis acollection of computer malware discovered on 1 September 20110.90text
Duquis aprocess of only using Duqu for unknown goals0.90text
keystrokesinstance ofExecutables developed after Stuxnet using the Stuxnet source code that have been discovered.The executables are designed to capture information0.80text
system information.Current analysis shows no code related to industrial control systemsinstance ofExecutables developed after Stuxnet using the Stuxnet source code that have been discovered.The executables are designed to capture information0.80text
exploitsinstance ofExecutables developed after Stuxnet using the Stuxnet source code that have been discovered.The executables are designed to capture information0.80text
or self-replication.The executables have been found in a limited number of organizationsinstance ofExecutables developed after Stuxnet using the Stuxnet source code that have been discovered.The executables are designed to capture information0.80text
including those involved in the manufacturing of industrial control systems.The exfiltrated data may be used to enable a future Stuxnet-like attackinstance ofExecutables developed after Stuxnet using the Stuxnet source code that have been discovered.The executables are designed to capture information0.80text
or might already have been used as the basis for the Stuxnet attackinstance ofExecutables developed after Stuxnet using the Stuxnet source code that have been discovered.The executables are designed to capture information0.80text
Duqurelated to Command and control serversSome0.60section
Duqurelated to Command and control serversIt0.60section
Duqurelated to Command and control serversCentOS0.60section
Duqurelated to Command and control serversServers0.60section

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