Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Computer virus Flame is more sophisticated than Stuxnet...

SECURITY experts have discovered the world’s most complex computer virus, dubbed Flame, which they say has been lurking undetected in computers in Iran and the Middle East for up to five years.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the malicious software is 20 times more powerful than any other known cyber warfare programmes including the infamous Stuxnet virus, and could only have been created by a state.

Flame is the third computer virus aimed at systems in the Middle East to have been exposed in the past three years: Iran has accused Israel and the West of using cyber warfare to sabotage its nuclear programme.

 The Flame virus was detected by Kaspersky Labs, a Russian security firm that specialises in targeting malicious computer codes and which was set up by the discoverer of Stuxnet, Eugene Kaspersky. Senior researcher Roel Schouwenberg said they had never seen such sophisticated programming. Full story...

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