John Bumgarner an expert about cyber-warfare asserts that the Stuxnet PC-virus, which destructed the nuclear program of Iran during 2010, is connected with the mysterious PC-worm Conficker, which emerged during late-2008 while contaminating a few million PCs, published Reuters.com dated December 2, 2011.
Bumgarner through his research claims that while the Conficker was used on the Iranian PCs for creating backdoors, the Stuxnet was used for contaminating those PCs.
According to him, the Conficker sort of created a large smoke screen for encompassing the entire globe for disguising the actual criminal task viz., serving the Stuxnet.
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