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Deep inside one of Stuxnet’s configuration blocks, a certain 8 bytes variable holds a number which, if read as a date, points to June 24th, 2012. This is actually the date when Stuxnet’s LNK replication sub-routines stop working and the worm stops infecting USB memory sticks. The specific variable which keeps the “time of death” […]

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I’ve released my first add-on for Internet Explorer and I’ve almost finished a second one. Developing for Internet Explorer was a very different experience than developing for the other browsers I’ve worked with before – Firefox, Firefox Mobile, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera. Overall Architecture Internet Explorer extensions are called Browser Helper Objects (BHO). They […]

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Driver The driver is the first component of Duqu to be loaded in the system. As we discovered, the driver and other components of malware are installed with a dropper exploiting a 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2011-3402). The driver is registered in the HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ registry path. The exact name of the registry key varies in different versions […]

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