Security Firm Seeks Help on ‘Gauss’ Virus

August 14, 2012

Five days after a computer security firm disclosed the discovery of Gauss, a computer virus targeting computers in Lebanon, they issued a cry for help. Among Gauss’s most puzzling components is an encrypted “warhead” that watches for a specific computer system with no Internet connection and installs itself only if it finds that configuration.

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