The firm, Kaspersky Lab, said that the virus appeared to have been written by the same programmers who created Flame, the data-mining computer virus that was found to be spying on computers in Iran in May, and that it might be linked to Stuxnet, the virus that disrupted uranium enrichment work in Iran in 2010.
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Security researchers believe Duqu was created by the same group of programmers behind Stuxnet.
Because Stuxnet and Duqu were written on the same platform and share many of the same fingerprints in their source code, researchers believe both were developed by the same group of programmers.
Because both were written on the same platform and share many of the same fingerprints in their source code, researchers believe both were developed by the same group of programmers.
Security researchers believe Flame and Stuxnet were written by different programmers, but commissioned by the same two nations.
"We believe Flame was written by a different team of programmers but commissioned by the same larger entity," Roel Schouwenberg, a security researcher at Kaspersky Labs, said in an interview Wednesday.
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