Irregular Expressions » Gauss http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/Irregular-Expressions Insight into current security related events and exploits, including virtualization security and tips. Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:00:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 What Is The Gauss Payload? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/Irregular-Expressions/what-is-the-gauss-payload/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/Irregular-Expressions/what-is-the-gauss-payload/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 03:49:58 +0000 Dan O'Connor http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/Irregular-Expressions/?p=883 If you have not seen this yet, Gauss is something that appears to have come out of the same labs or workshop as Flame and Stuxnet. This specifically seems to be targeted against the financial industry in the middle east.

Here is a Guardian article with some excellent information;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/09/stuxnet-gauss-virus-kaspersky

Kaspersky is still actively working on figuring out the payload, and strangly they are asking for assistance.

https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193781/The_Mystery_of_the_Encrypted_Gauss_Payload

If you have the interest and capabilities you can contact them at the above site and get involved. Very very interesting just to get caught up on the current suspicions of what they think is going on.

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