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During 2013, the number of attacks each month rose from 100,000 in January to 600,000 in December, according to a report last year by Symantec, the maker of antivirus software.
and analysis for antivirus company Kaspersky Lab, says he logs on to his computer assuming he is not alone. operate under the principle that my computer is owned by at least three governments,
The discovery of the Duqu virus a collection of malware used primarily for sensitive intelligence-collection operations by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab ZAO provides the first solid evidence that Israel had in fact been spying on the talks,
Kaspersky has named not officially Israel as the source of the attack. But the uncovered virus"was so complex
and borrowed so heavily from Duqu that it'could not have been created by anyone without access to the original Duqu source code,"according to the Journal and Kaspersky's report.
Kaspersky researchers were alerted to Duqu's resurgence after detecting the virus in their own system earlier this year it had been there,
Kaspersky believes, for at least six months. The FBI is investigating Kaspersky's claims according to The Journal.
The firm has declined to name the three European hotels that were targeted. Nuclear talks were held at the Beau-Rivage Palace in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Intercontinental in Geneva, the Palais Coburg in Vienna, the Hotel President Wilson in Geneva, the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich
Citing a soon to be released report from computer security company Kaspersky Lab the newspaper said the attack involved malicious software that gave hackers long-term access to banking systems.
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