<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Gauss was discovered during the course of the ongoing effort initiated by the </span><a href="http://www.itu.int/" style="color:rgb(55,81,171);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">International Telecommunications Union (ITU)</a><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">, following the discovery of Flame.</span></blockquote>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:53 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karim.attoumanimohamed@ties.itu.int" target="_blank">karim.attoumanimohamed@ties.itu.int</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Gauss – Nation-state cyber-surveillance meets banking Trojan <a href="http://www.securelist.com/en/blog?weblogid=208193767" target="_blank">http://www.securelist.com/en/<u></u>blog?weblogid=208193767</a><br>
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Gauss, a new virus (or worm because its decryption is not done) was identified by Kaspersky. The fourth after Stuxnet, Flame and Duqu.<br>
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I wondered if it's not time sounding the alarm because it could be that many more malware exist but those who created them or the victims do not dare talk about for their image and of sovereignty reasons.<br>
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What benefits can be envisaged for end users in what appears to be a cybernetics war that started before it was predicted by experts.<br>
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Where countries may protest at global level? I believe that ICT governance is truly threatened and we may be surprized by all implications as for now it's clear that everything is possible in the cyberspace.<br>
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Karim ATTOUMANI MOHAMED, Comoros<br>
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