Latest Iranian Malware Targets Financial Software

The article contrasts Symantec’s claim of a recently observed Narilam malware campaign in the Middle East with Kaspersky Lab’s analysis that Narilam is an older (circa 2009–2010), low-scale worm targeting MS SQL-based accounting/financial systems (e.g., Malyran, Amin, Shahd tables), primarily corrupting data rather than conducting espionage, and is now nearly extinct.