Cyber security experts said the discovery publicly demonstrates what
experts privy to classified information have long known: that nations
have been using pieces of malicious computer code as weapons to promote
their security interests for several years... Symantec Security Response manager Vikram Thakur said that his
company’s experts believed there was a “high” probability that Flame was
among the most complex pieces of malicious software ever discovered... Kaspersky’s research shows the largest number of infected machines
are in Iran, followed by Israel and the Palestinian territories, then
Sudan and Syria.
The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, which caused centrifuges to fail at the Iranian enrichment facility it attacked. It has about 100 times as much code as a typical virus designed to steal financial information, said Kaspersky Lab senior researcher Roel Schouwenberg. Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and log instant messaging chats. Kaspersky Lab said Flame and Stuxnet appear to infect machines by exploiting the same flaw in the Windows operating system and that both viruses employ a similar way of spreading... “The scary thing for me is: if this is what they were capable of five years ago, I can only think what they are developing now,” Mohan Koo, managing director of British-based Dtex Systems cyber security company. - Reuters.
Δεν υπάρχουν σχόλια:
Δημοσίευση σχολίου