Meet ‘Flame’, the massive spy malware infiltrating Iranian computers

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Meet ‘Flame’, the massive spy malware infiltrating Iranian computers
Botnet	Flame
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CCProtocol
Date	2012 / 28 mai 2012
Editor/Conference
Link	http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/flame/ (Archive copy)
Author	Kim Zetter
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Abstract

“ A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation.

The malware, discovered by Russia-based anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, is an espionage toolkit that has been infecting targeted systems in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan, the Israeli Occupied Territories and other countries in the Middle East and North Africa for at least two years.

Dubbed “Flame” by Kaspersky, the malicious code dwarfs Stuxnet in size – the groundbreaking infrastructure-sabotaging malware that is believed to have wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear program in 2009 and 2010. Although Flame has both a different purpose and composition than Stuxnet, and appears to have been written by different programmers, its complexity, the geographic scope of its infections and its behavior indicate strongly that a nation-state is behind Flame, rather than common cyber-criminals — marking it as yet another tool in the growing arsenal of cyberweaponry.

Bibtex

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