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Kaspersky: We've found new virus linked to Stuxnet

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LONDON, ENGLAND -

Computer security firm Kaspersky says it has discovered a new batch of malicious software linked to the infrastructure-wrecking Stuxnet virus.

In a statement Thursday the Moscow-based company said it had found a virus dubbed "Gauss" which it said was aimed at stealing financial information from its mainly Middle Eastern victims.

Kaspersky Lab ZAO said that the newly-discovered virus shared similarities in terms of structure and operation with Flame, a program aimed at vacuuming information from target computers. Flame in turn shared similarities with Stuxnet, a program experts believe was designed to sabotage Iran's disputed nuclear program.

Both pieces of malicious software have been attributed to the U.S. and Israeli governments. Kaspersky's statement said that all three viruses likely came "from the same "factory" or "factories."

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