Securing America: DoD Putting Billions into Stopping Cyber Warfare

The Department of Defense is plowing a reported $3.4 billion into fighting cyber warfare because it is the new battlefield.  One of the greatest threats out there: Duqu, a type of malicious software.

FOX Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge has details from Washington in our ongoing series on national security:

Cyber investigators tell FOX that Duqu gets inside the target and steals files before deleting itself after 30 days.  It’s like an advance team, stealing data to lay the foundation for a much larger attack, like Stuxnet, that crippled Iran’s nuclear program in 2009.  Liam Omarchu is with Symantec…

(Omarchu) “We can see they’re gathering information about industrial control systems, so that makes us worried that there may be a new attack similar to Stuxnet in the future.”

Cyber investigators say there is no question Duqu and Stuxnet were authored by the same person because their codes are so similar.

In Washington, Catherine Herridge, FOX News Radio.