Computer virus shuts down Russian stock exchange

[mandy]

..the Russian stock exchange has been subjected to an attack instigated by an unnamed, and apparently unrelated, computer pest.

Dmitry Shatsky, vice president of the Russian Trading System (RTS) said in a statement that a virus had infected a single computer used to test trading software that was connected to the internet. The entire network had to be temporarily shut down on Thursday as experts sought to isolate the infected machine and scanned others PCs for signs of infection.

Russian anti-virus company Kaspersky said sources had revealed that the infected machine was controlled remotely to launch a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against other systems on the trading network.

full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8679