India shuts server linked to Duqu computer virus

Authorities are investigating a computer server in Mumbai for links to the Duqu malicious software that some security experts warned could be the next big cyber threat. Web Werks, a Mumbai-based Web-hosting company, said it had given an image of the suspicious virtual private server to officials from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), after security firm Symantec Corp found the server was communicating with computers infected with the Duqu virus. The virtual private server was leased to a client in Milan, Italy, according to Nikhil Rathi, founder of Web Werks.

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