1. GUASS VIRUS
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Santosh Khadsare

2. GUASS
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5. GAUSS
A new computer virus, dubbed Gauss, has been discovered in
the Middle East.
Cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said Gauss is the work of
the same "factory" or "factories" that built the Stuxnet worm.
There is a mysterious module, known as Godel, that copies
malicious code onto USB drives when they are plugged into
infected PCs. Godel's purpose is unknown because some of its
code is compressed and scrambled using a sophisticated
encryption method. It only activates when it infects a
predetermined target.

6. GAUSS
It estimates the total number of victims is in the tens of
thousands. The largest number of infections were found were
in Lebanon, followed by Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
The virus is built using modules with internal names that
appear to be inspired by famous mathematicians and
philosophers, including Kurt Godel, Johann Carl Friedrich
Gauss and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. Kaspersky named the
entire operation after the Gauss component as it implements
the data-stealing capabilities .

7. What is its purpose?
Gauss is a surveillance tool.
It steals credentials for hacking online banking systems, social
networking sites and email accounts; it also gathers
information about infected PCs, including web browsing
history, system passwords and the contents of disk drives.