<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>Insight: Did Conficker help sabotage Iran's nuke program?
(Reuters) - A cyber warfare expert claims he has linked the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010 to Conficker, a mysterious<wm> piece of malware, in the first reported link between the two in years.
Conficker is a US-borne piece of malware that infected millions of computer systems worldwide and was linked to the US military in its initial attribution as the primary hacker responsible. However Conficker was originally believed to be from a Ukrainian company, Rambin Computer Systems, until a team of computer scientists developed a method to trace the source code through a Ukrainian port.
Iranian officials have denied any involvement in Stuxnet's release</wm> and claims that the system was a US military experiment gone wrong.
Iran's nuclear enrichment programme. However