News Summary: Firm says computer virus in Mideast

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NEW DISCOVERY: A Russian security firm says a new computer virus tied to some of the most sophisticated cyberweapons thus-far discovered has been found circulating in the Middle East. It says the virus is aimed at stealing financial information from customers of a series of Lebanese banks.

CONNECTIONS: The firm says similarities in coding, structure, and operation meant it could say “with a high degree of certainty” that the new virus, Gauss, was related to Flame and Stuxnet.

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