Infowars.com
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
While routinely touting the necessity for tighter
controls over the Internet in the name of cybersecurity, the U.S.
government has again been caught creating computer viruses to wage cyber warfare in the Middle East.
Researchers working for both Kaspersky and Symantec have
separately discovered that the United States is almost certainly
responsible for three new viruses that are being used in Lebanon and
Iran to conduct espionage, having already been identified as the
culprits behind the 2010 Stuxnet virus and this year’s closely related
Flame virus.
Kaspersky and Symantec experts are still unsure as to
what the newly discovered viruses are designed to do, but have confirmed
that they are operating in the Middle East, including Iran and Lebanon,
and that the, “approach to uploading packages and downloading data fits
the profile of military and/or intelligence operations.”
The new viruses, programs code-named SP, SPE and IP, use
malware packages that try to “communicate with command and control
servers.” The new viruses could be offshoots of the Flame virus or
completely different pieces of software.
“The findings are likely to bolster a growing view that
the U.S. government is using cyber technology more widely than
previously believed to further its interests in the Middle East,” reports Haaretz.
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