A highly sophisticated computer worm which has many of the same characteristics of the virus used to target Iran's nuclear program has been discovered targeting companies in Europe.
Although the virus appears to have been spying on the systems it infiltrates -- rather than attempting to vandalize them -- experts say its code is so similar to the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran, that it may have been engineered by the same people, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
The U.S. and Israel were widely thought to be behind Stuxnet, which targeted many of the centrifuges at Tehran's nuclear facilities. It took this kind of cyberwarfare to a new level.
Iranian information technology officials confirmed last year in September that some Iranian industrial systems had been targeted by Stuxnet virus, but added that Iranian engineers successfully rooted out the problem.
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