"Fortunately, our young experts have been able to discover this virus and the Stars virus is now in the laboratory for more investigations," Jalali was quoted as saying. He did not specify the target of Stars or its intended impact.More info at Reuters.
"The particular characteristics of the Stars virus have been discovered," Jalali said. "The virus is congruous and harmonious with the (computer) system and in the initial phase it does minor damage and might be mistaken for some executive files of government organisations."
Iran under fire by second cyber attack?
Posted on Tuesday, April 26 2011 @ 3:25 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Last year Iran was hit by the Stuxnet worm, and according to the country's civil defense commander Iran is now being targeted by a second computer virus called "Stars":