IRAN says its defence computer systems have been infected with a
''supervirus'' similar to the one believed to have been created by
Israel that severely damaged Tehran's nuclear program last year.
Anti-virus experts have identified a virus called Duqu
that they say shares properties with the Stuxnet worm apparently created
by Mossad, the Israeli security service. It was thought to have
targeted the nuclear program's centrifuges, the devices that enrich
uranium to create nuclear fuel.
It was not clear from the Iranian statement whether Duqu
had also struck nuclear facilities, but it was the regime's first
admission of damage.
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