{"id":16570,"date":"2011-10-21T17:03:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T07:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=16570"},"modified":"2011-10-21T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T07:03:05","slug":"bitdefender-offiers-free-removal-tool-for-duqu-or-son-of-stuxnet-rootkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=16570","title":{"rendered":"Bitdefender offiers free removal tool for Duqu, or &#8216;son of Stuxnet,&#8217; rootkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Bitdefender offers free removal tool for Duqu, or \u2018son of Stuxnet,\u2019 rootkit<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SYDNEY &amp; AUCKLAND<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>\u2013<strong> October 21, 2011<\/strong> \u2013Bitdefender\u00ae, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, has released a free removal tool against an aggressive family of rootkit malware built on the notorious Stuxnet e-threat.<\/p>\n<p>The new e-threat, dubbed Rootkit.Duqu.A, shares a multitude of features with the Stuxnet worm that was used in September 2010 to compromise the Iranian nuclear program. It protects a keylogger component that gathers information from the infected computers.<\/p>\n<p>Rootkit.Duqu.A is built on relatively old technology but infections can lead to confidential information theft, loss of intellectual property and other risks associated with the presence of a keylogger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the Duqu rootkit has been attributed to the Stuxnet gang, we believe the two e-threats are completely unrelated,\u201d said Catalin Cosoi, Head of the Bitdefender Online Threats Lab at Bitdefender. \u201cStuxnet has been successfully reverse-engineered and its code was published online earlier this year. Now, Stuxnet is serving as a source of inspiration for other cyber-criminal gangs. That code is serving as open source for the virus community, basically adding millions of dollars in value to the virus community&#8217;s R&amp;D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The removal tool can be downloaded here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duquremoval.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.duquremoval.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitdefender offers free removal tool for Duqu, or \u2018son of Stuxnet,\u2019 rootkit\u00a0 SYDNEY &amp; AUCKLAND \u2013 October 21, 2011 \u2013Bitdefender\u00ae, an award-winning provider of innovative internet security solutions, has released a free removal tool against an aggressive family of rootkit malware built on the notorious Stuxnet e-threat. The new e-threat, dubbed Rootkit.Duqu.A, shares a multitude<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=16570\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16571,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16570\/revisions\/16571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}