There has been a recent discovery of a virus that is
stealing data from countries in the Middle East such as Iran and Israel apparently
since 2010 or maybe even longer. The malware has been called Flame and appears
to have been created by a government agency rather than the usual cybercriminal.
Flame has been designed to steal information such as files,
audio conversations and screenshots off of targeted systems. Security firm Kaspersky
Labs said "The complexity and functionality of the newly discovered
malicious program exceed those of all other cyber menaces known to date." Code
wise, Flame is 20 times the size of the recent Stuxnet malware that attacked
Iran’s nuclear facilities.
It is still unclear who designed the Flame virus and what
country it may have come from. Kaspersky is currently working deciphering the
virus and it may require other security analysts to help figure it out since is
a very complex virus. Both Flame and Stuxnet seem to infect computers by
exploiting the same hole in the Windows OS and use a similar way of spreading
itself.
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