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Page tracking down the Malware and figuring out what it does means locating all the Malware's modules. In comparison to most viruses, semantics researchers say Regin is groundbreaking and almost peerless. The level of sophistication and complexity of Regin suggests. That the development of this threat could have taken well- resourced teams of developers many months or years to develop and maintain. Regin's been out in the wild since at least 2008. And it's been busy. The researchers estimate Regin has effected systems in ten different countries. Primarily Russia and Saudi Arabia and has mainly targeted Telecom's infrastructure, private individuals [ MUSIC ] And small businesses. The sophistication of the virus and it's choice of targets has lead to the inevitable comparisons to region and state sponsored viruses like stuxnet, the super sophisticated computer malware which was blamed in 2012 for the destruction of Iranian nuclear centrifuges. 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