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New malware designed to corrupt databases discovered by Symantec
- Iran: Saturday, November 24 - 2012 at 00:23
Symantec has said it has discovered a new type of malware that appears to be targeting Iran and is designed to meddle with SQL databases, IDG news has reported. The company discovered the malware, called W32.Narilam, on November 15. Narilam is rated as a "low risk" by the company, but according to a map, the majority of infections are concentrated in Iran, with a few in the UK, the continental US and the state of Alaska. Once on a machine, the malware looks for Microsoft SQL databases. It then hunts for specific words in the SQL database, some of which are in Persian, and replaces items in the database with random values or deletes certain fields. "The malware does not have any functionality to steal information from the infected system and appears to be programmed specifically to damage the data held within the targeted database," Symantec said.
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