Virus found in Mideast can spy on bank transactions

File photo of Kaspersky Lab CEO and Co-founder Eugene Kaspersky speaking during the Reuters Global Media and Technology Summit in LondonBOSTON (Reuters) – A new cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on banking transactions and steal login information for social networking sites, email and instant messaging, according to a leading computer security firm, Kaspersky Lab. Dubbed Gauss, the virus may also be capable of attacking critical infrastructure and was very likely built in the same laboratories as Stuxnet, the computer worm widely believed to have been used by the United States and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear program, Kaspersky Lab said on Thursday. …



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