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Venture Beat
| 12 months ago
It's been rumored for some time that the Stuxnet virus, which attacked Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010 before escaping and wreaking havoc on the public Web, was a joint effort between the U.S. and Israel. But, aside from security firm reports,...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
The report states that the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, was developed by the United States and Israel. The officials who participated in the program gave varied assessments of the extent to which the virus disrupted the...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
Jerome Socolovsky May 31, 2012 The Flame computer virus unleashed in Iran and other Middle Eastern countries is being described as unusually large and powerful. Some experts, though, are questioning the seriousness of the threat. A Russian-based...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
Computer virus experts at Kaspersky Lab, acting with the blessing of the United Nations , were searching for a villain dubbed the Wiper when they came across a much more menacing suspect requiring a new moniker: Flame. The malicious program left...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Story continues below The variety of spy tools that Flame employs is astonishing. According to Kaspersky, "of course, other malware exists which can record audio, but key here is Flame's completeness the ability to steal data in so many different...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Israel rejects link to malware cyber-attack Technology reporter, BBC News Moshe Ya'alon spoke to the country's military radio station about the attack Israel has dismissed suggestions that it might be behind the Flame cyber-attack. Several media...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
The Flame computer virus that smoldered undetected for years in Middle Eastern energy facilities confirmed fears that the world has entered a new age of cyber espionage and sabotage. Internet defenders on Wednesday were tearing into freshly exposed...
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The Australian
| 12 months ago
Kaspersky Lab and Semantic Australia both confirmed the W32.Flamer or Flame virus had surfaced two years ago, but said as yet they were unaware of any infections involving computers in Australia. Cyber espionage by a nation State or large criminal...
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San Jose Mercury News
| 12 months ago
Security experts have only begun examining the thousands of lines of code that make up Flame, a massive, data-mining computer virus that has been designed to steal information from computers across the Middle East, but already digital clues point to...
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CNN
| 12 months ago
The "Flame" virus, the most complex computer bug ever discovered, has been lurking for years inside Iranian government computers, spying on the country's officials. Publicly unveiled this week, the bug is one of the most potent cyber weapons ever...
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Eurasianet
| 12 months ago
Someone is infecting Iran's computers with what experts call "the most powerful virus to date."...Flame is a computer virus that Tehran says is infecting its computers and which independent experts say is the most powerful virus yet seen. The virus...
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Time of India
| 12 months ago
Iran has admitted that a data-mining virus dubbed 'Flame' had caused substantial damage and massive amounts of data had been lost in what may be most destructive cyber attack on the nation. The virus also damaged centrifuges operating at its uranium...
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Daily Chronicle
| 12 months ago
Iran and other Middle East countries have been hit with a cunning computer virus that can eavesdrop on computer users and their co-workers and filch information from nearby cellphones, cybersecurity experts said Tuesday...The Russian Internet...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
The United Nations is reportedly preparing a cyber security alert that warns nations on the high security risks attributed to the recently detected computer malware 'Flame' even as some IT experts downplays the virus' actual capability. Share This...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
It seems there is a close relation to the Stuxnet and Duqu targeted attacks, the statement said, referring to two other viruses. Stuxnet damaged hundreds of centrifuges at the Natanz nuclear plant. Duqu, like Flame, was apparently built for espionage...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 12 months ago
Thousands of computers in Iran belonging to government agencies and private companies have been infected with a highly sophisticated virus, dubbed Flame, in the latest cyberstrike against the Islamic Republic, said cybersecurity experts and Iran's...
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Venture Beat
| 12 months ago
Iran has confirmed the presence of a new and highly complex piece of malware targeted at Middle Eastern countries. The virus, called Flame, is said to be as worrisome as Stuxnet, which plagued Iranian nuclear systems in 2010...The research on these...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
30 May, 2012, 00:22 A handout picture released by the Iranian president's official website shows a metal-encased rod with 20 percent enriched nuclear fuel as it is inserted into Tehran's reactor on February 15, 2012 (AFP Photo/HO) High-ranking...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
The Pentagon has decided that computer-based attacks and hacking from a foreign country can now be considered acts of war. Flame' Virus explained: How it works and who's behind it Published: 29 May, 2012, 23:58 Flame' Virus: How it works and who's...
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The Daily Star
| 12 months ago
A Russian computer firm has discovered a new computer virus with unprecedented destructive potential that chiefly targets Iran and could be used as a cyber weapon by the West and Israel. Kaspersky Lab, one of the world's biggest producers of anti-...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Story continues below "They should be on alert," he said, adding that he believed Flame was likely built on behalf of a nation state. The warning is the latest signal that a new era of cyber warfare has begun following the 2010 Stuxnet virus attack...
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Kuwait Times
| 12 months ago
A top Israeli minister said yesterday the use of cyber weapons, such as the newly uncovered Flame virus, to counter Iran's nuclear plans would be reasonable, hinting at Israel's possible involvement. For anyone who sees the Iranian threat as...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
In my clinic I see all sorts of people walking through my door...Suggested Topics Ever since word of the Flame virus first got out the superlatives have come in thick and fast. Analysts have competed with themselves to describe it as the most complex,...
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Xtra News
| 12 months ago
A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the Flame virus that was recently discovered in Iran and other parts of the Middle East. "This is the...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
Michael Lipin May 29, 2012 The Iranian government said Tuesday it has produced an antivirus program capable of fighting what computer experts are calling "the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed." The data-stealing virus has been infecting...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 12 months ago
ments Russian security firm spots cyber supervirus that tops Stuxnet Russian Internet security firm Kaspersy Labs says the complexity and targets of the virus which is infecting computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East imply its creator is...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 12 months ago
A massive data-slurping cyberweapon is circulating in the Middle East, a Russian Internet security firm reported Monday, saying that computers in Iran appear to have been particularly affected. The virus, dubbed "Flame," is unprecedented both in...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 12 months ago
A Russian-based internet security firm says a powerful computer virus with unprecedented data-snatching capabilities has attacked machines in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East. Iran has not disclosed any damage done by the new spyware virus,...
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BDNews24
| 12 months ago
Researchers may have gleaned new information about the extent to which nations are engaged in cyber warfare with the discovery of a virus known as Flame. Kaspersky Lab, which on Monday claimed credit for uncovering Flame, believes the virus may be...
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The New York Times
| 12 months ago
No prize for guessing who is getting the blame or should that be the credit for creating a new spyware super bug reported to have infected computers throughout the Middle East...Proud of you! posted a reader of the Haaretz newspaper website under a...
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DAWN
| 12 months ago
Iran claims coming up with anti-virus against Flame' spy malware AFP 12 mins ago In this picture taken on Feb 13, 2012, an Iranian woman uses a computer in an internet cafe in central Tehran. Iran claimed on Tuesday to have come up with an anti-virus...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Researchers at the Russian security firm Karpersky have discovered a new "highly sophisticated malicious program" that has been used as a cyber weapon to collect private data from thousands of computers in Middle East countries like Iran and Israel...
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Zee News
| 12 months ago
An unprecedented "cyber espionage worm" considered the most sophisticated spyware virus yet unleashed, attributed to a "state player", has hit Iran and other Middle Eastern countries with the possible goal of foiling Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
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NOW Lebanon
| 12 months ago
For anyone facing the threat of a nuclear Iran, using cyber-weapons such as the newly-discovered destructive virus known as Flame, would be a "reasonable" step, Israel's vice prime minister said on Tuesday. "For anyone who sees the Iranian threat as...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
Israel is blessed to be a nation possessing superior technology. These achievements of ours open up all kinds of possibilities for us," vice premier says after new super computer virus found to be attacking Iran. Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski In comments...
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Washington Post
| 12 months ago
The Washington Post Researchers have identified a sophisticated new computer virus 20 times the size of Stuxnet, the malicious software that disabled centrifuges in an Iranian nuclear plant . But unlike Stuxnet, the new malware appears to be used...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
The world's most complex computer virus, possessing a range of espionage capabilities, including the ability to secretly record conversations, has been exposed. Middle Eastern states were targets and Iran ordered an emergency review of official...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
A massive cyber attack against Middle Eastern nations capable of sweeping up huge amounts of sensitive data has been discovered by security researchers who said it was most likely a state-sponsored spying attempt. Researchers at the Russian security...
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War In Context
| 12 months ago
Meet Flame', the massive spy malware infiltrating Iranian computers by News Sources on May 28, 2012 Wired reports : A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be...
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International Herald Tribune
| 12 months ago
A complex computer virus has been pilfering sensitive information from computers in the Middle East for at least two years, according to a security report released Monday. The virus, dubbed Flame, has been infecting computers in Iran, Israel, Lebanon,...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 12 months ago
Computer malware described as "the most sophisticated cyberweapon yet unleashed" has been uncovered in computers in the Middle East and may have infected machines in Europe, according to reports from antivirus researchers and software makers in...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
VOA News May 28, 2012 A Russian Internet security company says it has discovered what it calls the most malicious cyber menace known to date. Kaspersky Labs says the computer program known as "Flame" is the most complex and sophisticated malware...
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NY Daily News
| 12 months ago
A vicious computer virus is ripping through the Middle East, and computer security experts warned Monday it could be the most sophisticated cyber-weapon in history. The virus, or malware, dubbed "Flame" has already attacked computers in a host of...
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Muncie Free Press
| 12 months ago
Security experts have discovered a highly sophisticated computer virus in Iran and the Middle East Staff Report Some experts suspect the United States and Israel, a view that was laid out in a January 2011 New York Times report that said it came from...
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Venture Beat
| 12 months ago
An extremely complex virus infecting computers in the Middle East called Flame was made public today, and is likened to the Stuxnet virus, which attacked Iranian nuclear systems in 2010. Flame can easily be described as one of the most complex...
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Xtra News
| 12 months ago
Security experts discovered a highly complex computer virus in Iran and the Middle East that they believe was deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored espionage. Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Computer worm that hit Iran oil terminals 'is most complex yet' Experts warn W32.Flamer may have been developed by a nation state as part of cyberwarfare activities Iran's Kharg island terminal processes 90% of the country's crude oil exports...
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Haaretz
| 12 months ago
Internet security company Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday that it had uncovered a 'cyber-espionage worm' designed to collect and delete sensitive information, primarily in Middle Eastern countries. Kaspersky called the malware, named "Flame," the "...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed the malware, known as Flame, had been operating since August 2010. The company said it believed the attack was state-sponsored, but could not be sure of its exact origins. They described...
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Jerusalem Post
| 12 months ago
If the Lab's analysis is correct, Flame could be the third major cyber weapon uncovered after the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, and its data-stealing cousin Duqu, named after the Star Wars villain. The discovery by one...
