3 Things Flame Tells Us About The Future Of Cyber Warfare

3 Things Flame Tells Us About The Future Of Cyber Warfare
Forbes
Earlier this week researchers at Kaspersky Labs unveiled a new type of malware called “Flame” and described as “one of the most complex threats ever discovered.” The cyber attack toolkit, whose origins are unclear, wasn't trying to knock out nuclear ... 

Cyber Attack Talk May Outpace The Actual Threat
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Friedman labels the warnings of senior government and industry officials about the economic and security dangers posed by an Internet-based attack "wildly overblown." While some cyber experts have said a cyber attack was the cause of the 2003 ...

U.S. News & World Report (blog)

'Flame' cyber attack in Middle East raises whodunit questions
Bellingham Herald
By BATSHEVA SOBELMAN — Los Angeles Times The latest case of cyber warfare and intelligence gathering in the Middle East has both surprised and impressed experts worldwide as word emerges of a newly detected malware dubbed Flame.

Flame Cyber Attack Overblown: Expert
TheStreet.com
By James Rogers 05/29/12 - 03:10 PM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The discovery of sophisticated new malware, dubbed "Flame" has made headlines around the world in the last few days, again raising the frightening prospect of cyber warfare.

Flame Malware Mostly Smoke And Mirrors, Say Security Experts
TPM
A bulletin from the Iranian national cyber security agency released on Monday claimed that Flame was behind several “recent incidents of mass data loss” in the country. On Wednesday, another Iranian military official claimed the malware had struck the ...

Flame virus could attack other nations
CNET (blog)
"This is the most serious (cyber) warning we have ever put out," Marco Obiso, cyber securitycoordinator for the ITU, told Reuters. The warning will paint the virus as a "dangerous espionage tool that could potentially be used to attack critical ...

NU regents candidates question response to cyber attack
Lincoln Journal Star
The university has identified an individual who may have been responsible for the cyber attack, but no one has been arrested, he said. Mauk referred the Journal Star to University of Nebraska-Lincoln police, who are investigating the information breach ...

Iran confirms 'Flame' cyber attack
RT
High-ranking Iranian officials' computers have been attacked by a newly detected data mining virus called “Flame,” an Iranian cyber defense group confirmed on Tuesday. Thecyber attack is the most destructive since the Stuxnet virus.

RT

Iran Threatens US as New Cyber Super-Weapon Strikes
FrontPage Magazine
Its purpose appears to be the mass cultivation of intelligence and it is assessed to be 20 times more complex than Stuxnet, the original “cyber super-weapon” that ravaged Iran's nuclear program. The Flame has been discovered in seven Middle Eastern ...

Iran: "Flame" virus defeated; Data recovered
CBS News
Middle East virus sparks Israel speculation Massive Middle East cyber-attackuncovered Experts see technological links between Flame and the highly focused Stuxnet virus, which was tailored to disrupt Iran's nuclear centrifuges in 2010.

CBS News

Flame: World's Largest Discovered Cyber Attack
pnosker.com (blog)
A cyber-attack on a scale never before seen was recently discovered by the Russian cyber securityfirm Kaspersky. The cyber-attack, dubbed “Flame,” targeted not only businesses and universities but also Middle Eastern governments including Israel and ...

Iran Slams Enemy Cyber Attack
Fars News Agency
Meantime, Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon acknowledged the Zionist regime's cyber war attack on Iran, including developing malicious softwares to damage sensitive Iranian data and computers. According to a report posted by Israeli daily ...

Fars News Agency

Iran Confirms Attack by Virus That Collects Information
New York Times
In a statement about Flame on its Web site, Kaspersky Lab, a Russian producer of antivirus software, said that “the complexity and functionality of the newly discovered malicious program exceed those of all other cyber menaces known to date.

UN agency has major concerns about Flame virus
msnbc.com
The warning is the latest signal that a new era of cyber warfare has begun following the 2010 Stuxnet virus attack that targeted Iran's nuclear program. The United States explicitly stated for the first time last year that it reserved the right to ...

msnbc.com

CenturyLink CEO participates in White House Cybersecurity Event
MarketWatch (press release)
Post serves as chair of the Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council, which was established by the Federal Communications Commission and is developing best practices that industry can use to limit cyber attacks and provide ...

Iran confirms attack by a virus that steals data
San Antonio Express
TEHRAN, Iran — The computers of high-ranking Iranian officials appear to have been penetrated by a data-mining virus called Flame, in what may be the most destructive cyber attack on Iran since the notorious Stuxnet virus, an Iranian cyberdefense ...

White House prepares to convene anti-botnet summit
CNET
The White House is planning to convene a cybersecurity summit tomorrow morning to discuss ways to counter botnets, which have emerged as the leading Internet security threat. Industry representatives are planning to announce a nine-point plan that ...

Iran 'can defend against Flame cyber attack'
BCS
A statement from the country's National Computer Emergency Response Team claimed that a detection and clean-up tool designed for the cyber threat was completed earlier this month, BBC News reports. Flame, which is thought to have been used to target ...

'Flame' malware is a glimpse of cyber wars to come
Marketplace.org
They don't know which government. Still, as sophisticated as it is, David Flamer says, "Flame is probably yesterday's cyber espionage tool." Fidler is with the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University. He says Flame's power, ...

Marketplace.org

Iran confirms "Flame" cyber attack
Finding Petroleum
The Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team Co-ordination Center (CERTCC) has confirmed on its website that Iran has suffered a cyber attack, from a virus it codenamed "Flame". It follows reports in April this year that Iran had disconnected its main ...

Cyber-attack concerns raised over Boeing 787 chip's 'back door'
The Guardian
The discovery will heighten concerns about the risks of cyber-attacks on sensitive installations, coming on the heels of the discovery this week of the 'Flamer' virus which has been attacking computer systems in Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

The Guardian

3 Reasons to Worry About the Flame Virus
Mobiledia
Marco Obiso, cyber security coordinator for the UN International Telecommunications Union, said the statement "is the most serious warning we have ever put out." The UN's formal notice tells nations the virus could potentially be used to attack ...

Mobiledia

Iran admits malicious programme 'Flame' caused substantial damage
Times of India
WASHINGTON: 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 attackon the nation. The virus also damaged centrifuges operating at ...

Wanted: Cyber warfare expert for Israel's central bank
Haaretz
The cyber warfare expert would be in touch with the National Information SecurityAuthority with the Shin Bet security service. The required skills for the position are formal computer science or science degree, along with a four-year experience in the ...

Haaretz

Cyber hacker anarchists Anonymous warn Canada Grand Prix fans of fresh plot
Daily Mail
By Sportsmail Reporter Cyber-anarchist group Anonymous are threatening anotherattack on Formula One during the Canadian Grand Prix on June 10 in support of protesting Quebec students. They have warned potential attendees to the event that they might ...

Daily Mail

Was flame virus that invaded Iran's computer networks made in USA?
msnbc.com (blog)
By Robert Windrem As the United Nations and Iran warn that the newly discovered flame computer virus may be the most potent weapon of its kind, US computer security experts tell NBC News that the virus bears the hallmarks of a US cyber espionage ...

Officials: IDF networks safe from cyber attacks
Jerusalem Post
Ya'alon fueled speculation of Israeli involvement in the cyber attack when he told Army Radio on Tuesday that “whoever sees the Iranian threat as a serious threat would be likely to take different steps, including these, in order to hurt them.

Beyond Stuxnet: massively complex Flame malware ups ante for cyberwar
MinnPost.com
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday announced the discovery of Flame, a piece of malicious software that one firm has called "arguably ... the most complex malware ever found." At this early stage of analysis, only a few of Flame's functions are ...

Cyber-attack concerns raised over Boeing 787 chip's - The Raw Story
By Charles Arthur, The Guardian
The discovery will heighten concerns about the risks of cyber-attacks on sensitive installations, coming on the heels of the discovery this week of the 'Flamer' virus which has been attacking computer systems in Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia. In a paper that has been published in draft form ...“An attacker can disable all the security on the chip, reprogram cryptographic and access keys … or permanently damage the device,” they noted. Woods told the Guardian that they have offered all ...
The Raw Story

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THE TROUBLE WITH CHIPS? Cyber ...
By Glenn Reynolds
May 30, 2012. THE TROUBLE WITH CHIPS? Cyber-attack concerns raised over Boeing 787 chip's 'back door.' Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 2:44 am. Tweet · RSS Feed · Podcast RSS Feed · Email Instapundit. Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos ...
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#Flame Malware - 21st Century Massive cyber attack on Iran | The ...
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Iran Under Cyber-Attack by Data-Mining Virus - Uskowi on Iran
By Nader Uskowi
Iran Under Cyber-Attack by Data-Mining Virus. The data-mining virus called Flame has reportedly penetrated important computers in Iran in what is described as the most malicious program ever discovered. Iran's Computer Emergency ...
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Flame 'Redefines Cyber Espionage' | Defense Tech
By John Reed
All of these advanced features in one worm led Internet security firm Kaspersky to call the arrival of Flame, “another phase in this [cyber ]war, and it's important to understand that such cyber weapons can easily be used against any country. ... investigations during the last few months, the Maher center, the Iranian CERTCC, following the continuous research on the targeted attacks of Stuxnet and Duqu since 2010, announces the latest detection of this attack for the very first time.
Defense Tech

Israel suspected of 'cyberweapon' strike on Middle East computers ...
By crescentandcross
The National A malware superbug described as the most complex and sophisticated “cyberweapon” ever devised has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East, a Russian digital-security provider says. Although it is ... “Oil loading in the Gulf is done by computer and Iran is quite good at cyber-warfare,” said Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University in New York who was the chief White House aide on issues related to Iran during the 1979 Iranian revolution.
The Ugly Truth

Powerful “Flame” Cyber Weapon Found in Iran
By StudentNewsDaily.com
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 ... Experts at Kaspersky Lab and Hungary's Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security who have spent weeks studying Flame said they have yet to find any evidence that it can attack infrastructure, delete data or inflict other physical damage.
Student News Daily

Chemical Facility Security News: HR 5856 Introduced – DOD ...
By PJCoyle
Young (R-FL) introduced HR 5856, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2013. While DOD has a major measure of responsibility for cybersecurity actions, there is nothing in the bill that mentions cybersecurity or cyber operations.
Chemical Facility Security News

International Cyber Security 2012 - HackerJournals Calendar
By martin
As new technologies to enhance flexible working practices continue to proliferate (such as smartphone, tablets, and the move to the “cloud”), potential targets for cyber attack continue to grow across all sectors whilst current security solutions ...
HackerJournals Calendar

Infidel Bloggers Alliance: Son of Stuxnet
By midnight rider
High-ranking Iranian officials' computers have been attacked by a newly detected data mining virus called “Flame,” an Iranian cyber defense group confirmed on Tuesday. The cyber attack is the most destructive since the Stuxnet virus. Iran has deplored the “massive” data loss suffered since over ...The computers security company said 189 infections were reported in the Persian country, 98 in Israel and Palestine and 32 in Sudan. Other Middle East countries such as Syria, Lebanon, ...
Infidel Bloggers Alliance

More Cyber Threat Warnings Issued | Cypherpath | Are you cyber ...
By admin
In a recent hearing up on the Hill, Jason Livingood, Comcast's Vice President of Internet systems engineering testified that Comcast will never be able to completely secure its broadband network fromcyber security threats such as botnets that can “turn ordinary users into unwitting participants ... This entry was posted in CyberAttacks, CyberSecurity, CyberThreats and tagged cyber attacks, Cyber Security, cyber terrorism, cyber threat, Cyr Warnings, data breaches, Tablets, Wifi Security .
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Flame Created by Government – Backed Hackers to Attack Middle ...
By Susanne Posel
Iran's National Computer Emergency Response Team posted a security alert stating that it believed Flame was responsible for “recent incidents of mass data loss” in the country. Israel/Palestine came in second with 98, followed by Sudan ... We have not seen any specific signs indicating a particular target such as the energy industry – making us believe it's a complete attack toolkit designed for general cyber-espionage purposes.” However, Gostev believes Flame could evolve into a ...
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Cyber-attack concerns raised over Boeing 787 chip's 'back door ...
Two Cambridge experts have discovered a "back door" in a computer chip used in military systems and aircraft such as the Boeing 787 that could allow the chip ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../cyber-attack-concerns-boeing-chip

Israel to spend over $13 million on cybersecurity efforts | The Times ...
ybersecurity has become a major growth industry of late, and the government is committing to ...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-spend-over-13-million-on-cy...

Flame Cyber Attack Overblown: Expert - TheStreet
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The discovery of sophisticated new malware, dubbed " Flame" has made headlines around the world in the last few days, again raising ...
www.thestreet.com/.../flame-cyber-attack-overblown-expert.ht...

Federal Worker Savings Plan Computers Hit in Cyber-Attack - Yahoo!
Last month the FBI notified the Thrift Savings Plan, the contribution retirement savings plan for Federal employees, that a contractor's computer systems had ...
gma.yahoo.com/federal-worker-savings-plan-computers-hit-c...

'Flame' cyber-attack aimed at Middle Eastern countries | Electronista
Russian security firm Kaspersky has uncovered a massive malware attack, referred to as Flame, that is believed to have gathered sensitive data from a wide ...
www.electronista.com/.../complex.data.vacuum.likely.govern...

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Flame cyber-attack in Middle East raises questions

'Flame' cyber-attack in Middle East raises whodunnit questions
Los Angeles Times
JERUSALEM -- The latest case of cyber warfare and intelligence gathering in the Middle East has both surprised and impressed experts worldwide, as information about the newly detected malwaredubbed "Flame" emerges. The malware was discovered by the ...

Russian Firm: Another Cyber Attack on Iran
TIME
Russian digital security provider Kaspersky Lab, which identified the virus, said in a release posted on its website late Monday that "the complexity and functionality of the newly discovered malicious program exceed those of all other cyber menaces ...

Info-stealing malware takes Flame war to new level of cyber weapon ouch
Computerworld (blog)
You've heard of a flame war, but the newly discovered, extremely sophisticated info-stealingmalware takes the flame war to an entirely new level of cyber weapon ouch. The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS Lab) calls the massively ...

Russian Firm: New Cyber Attack on Iran
Christian Broadcasting Network
By Tzippe Barrow JERUSALEM, Israel -- A Russian-based cyber-security firm announced the discovery of a powerful computer spyware program that has invaded computers in Iran and several other countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Iran Under Mysterious 'Flame' Cyber Attack
NewsMax.com
Security experts have discovered a highly sophisticated computer virus in Iran and other Middle East countries that they believe was deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyberespionage. Evidence suggest that the virus, ...

Iran Facing 'Stuxnet On Steroids' Attack
Forbes
Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab said 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 “most ...

Israel Suspected of Iran Cyber Attack
AllMediaNY
-by Stephanie Ortiz, Staff Writer; Image: Iran is the victim of another cyber attack. (Image Source: BGR.com) A strong computer virus with extraordinary data-taking capabilities has attacked machines in Iran and other locales in the Middle East, ...

AllMediaNY

Major Cyber Attack Discovered: Who, or What is Behind It?
Gather.com
A cyber attack that towers above all others was recently discovered by Russian security firm Kaspersky. The attacks are more sinister and troubling than any other since the development of the Internet. The malware, named "Flame," is so far-reaching and ...

Virus attack! Powerful cyber weapon found
Hindustan Times
Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage.

Hindustan Times

Is 'Flame' The Latest Weapon In A Cyber War Against Iran?
TPM
Iran's own cyber security agency on Monday released a bulletin confirming that the trojan had been detected in the country, saying that the malware could be behind recent “incidents of mass data loss.” The agency said that it had created an antivirus ...

'Flame': Lethal Cyberweapon or Media Hype?
PCWorld (blog)
Stuxnet and Duqu are both impressive in their own right, and 'Flame' seems to be an order or magnitude more complex than these “sibling” cyber attacks. One security vendor isn't as impressed, though, and believes that the response to 'Flame' ...

Massive cyber attack on Middle East
Belfast Telegraph
By Kevin Rawlinson A massive cyber attack against Middle Eastern nations capable of sweeping up huge amounts of sensitive data has been discovered by securityresearchers who said it was most likely a state-sponsored spying attempt.

Belfast Telegraph

Privileged Accounts Emerge as Primary Enterprise Security Attack Vector ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEWTON, Mass., May 29, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The exploitation of privileged accounts has emerged as the primary attack vector for enterprise cyber-security assaults and played a significant role in the most devastating data breaches and enterprise ...

Cyber 'superweapon' targets Iran
NEWS.com.au
Kaspersky said the virus was several times larger than the Stuxnet worm that was discovered in 2010 and targeted the Iranian nuclear program, reportedly at the behest of Western or Israeli security agencies. It said the main task of Flame is cyber ...

NEWS.com.au

English-Language Cyberwar Software Might Have Targeted Iran
ABC News
A cyber-attack launched against Iranian oil terminals and knocking them off line in April might have been caused by "Flame," a complicated software program that can steal all of the information on a computer and possibly work to erase its hard drive, ...

ABC News

Iran 'finds fix' for sophisticated Flame malware
BBC News
Iran says it has developed tools that can defend against the sophisticated cyber attack tool known as Flame. The country is believed to have been hit hard by the malicious programme which infiltrates networks in order to steal sensitive data.Security ...

BBC News

Official hints Israel capable of 'Flame'-type attack
CNN (blog)
By Guy Azriel reporting from Jerusalem Israel's Vice Prime Minister suggested Tuesday that his country has the capabilities to develop malware capable of attacking sophisticated computer systems, but would not confirm whether Israel has any role in the ...

Massive cyber attack uncovered in Middle East
ZDNet Australia
A complex targeted virus has been discovered stealing data in the Middle East, security researchers have announced. The malware — dubbed Flame — has been in operation since 2010, and appears to be state sponsored, Kaspersky Lab said, but it is not ...

Flame Virus 'Most Sophisticated' Cyber Weapon Ever Used
RedOrbit
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab announced on Monday that they had uncovered the “most sophisticated cyber weapon” ever unleashed. The malware, dubbed Flame, is a highly complex malicious program with vast espionage capabilities that are actively targeting ...

RedOrbit

Massive Cyber-Attack Discovered by Kaspersky
OneStopClick
"The risk of cyber warfare has been one of the most serious topics in the field of informationsecurity for several years now. Stuxnet and Duqu belonged to a single chain of attacks, which raised cyberwar-related concerns worldwide,” said Eugene ...

Massive "Flame" Cyber Attack Targeted At Some Middle Eastern Countries
DecryptedTech
An interesting report has popped up about a rather large attack on a group of Middle Eastern countries. The attack (called Flame) appears to be a targeted attack against Iran, Israel, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt with the ...

DecryptedTech

Kaspersky Uncovers Massive 'Flame' Malware Attack
eSecurity Planet
Win32.Flame, which they say "might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed." "Flame can easily be described as one of the most complex threats ever discovered," Kaspersky Lab chief security expert Aleks Gostev wrote in a blog post.

eSecurity Planet

Is It Time For Another Stuxnet Attack On Iran?
Forbes
The latest cyber weapon is known as “the flame” and one of its targets is Iran. It was discovered on Monday by Moscow cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab. Cyber warfare is the quietest way to make a military presence loud and clear. It is cybershock, ...

Forbes

Kaspersky reports huge cyber attack
PCR-online.biz
by Matt Grainger Kaspersky says it has discovered a huge and complex cyber-threat called Flame, a piece of malware that the company believes is state sponsored. According to the BBC, Kaspersky says that the malware has been in operation since August ...

PCR-online.biz

Iran's Mehmanparast Says 'Soft War' Cyber Attacks to Fail
San Francisco Chronicle
(Updates with comments from Palestinian official in eighth paragraph, previous cyber-attacks in last.) May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry said cyber- attacks against the Islamic republic are launched by hostile governments as part of a ...

Israel Admits to Waging Cyber War on Iran
Fars News Agency
Speaking in an interview with Army Radio, Ya'alon further hinted that Jerusalem was behind the cyber attack, took alleged credit for his regime by saying that Israel a technological power. "These achievements of ours open up all kinds of possibilities ...

Fars News Agency

Massive 'Flame' Malware Stealing Data Across Middle East
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a massive cyber threat, dubbed Flame, that is targeting "sensitive" information across the Middle East. The malware, Kaspersky said, "might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet ...

Cyber 'superweapon' virus uncovered: Russian firm
Sunday Times.lk
Alexander Gostev, chief security expert at Kaspersky Lab said it was alarming that the cyber attackwas now in its active phase. “Its operator is consistently surveilling infected systems, collecting information and targeting new systems to accomplish ...

Environment GM GM crop-trial website taken down by cyber-attack ...
By Editor
Cyber-attackers took down the website on Sunday night of Rothamsted Research – an agricultural research institute in the UK conducting a GM crop trial, just hours after a failed attack on the institute's field of genetically modified wheat in ...
JunkScience.com

Homeland Security Watch » The Cyber-Tootsie Roll Effect (Or ...
By Arnold Bogis
I do not know Mr. Rosenzweig but he seems to be a sophisticated observer and analyst of cyber-related topics, so I am not claiming that everywhere he looks, everything he sees looks like a cyber attack to him. That this list originated in some ...
Homeland Security Watch

Fuel Fix » Cyber attacks on power generation, transmission ...
By Dan X. McGraw
The National Security Agency has warned of a major cyber attack in the next 12 to 18 months. Al Qaeda has also called for an “electronic jihad.” Utility and pipeline companies have been warned for months about the rising risk of a cyber attack ...
Fuel Fix

Commentary: Please stop calling every cyber-incident an attack
By Georgetown CNSL
05/29/12: The blog Homeland Security Watch has this post today from Arnold Bogis arguing that, in essence, we need new language to describe incidents of cybercrime besides calling everything a “cyber attack.” The word “attack,” he points ...
Georgetown Security Law Brief

Activist Post: 'No Doubt' New Cyber Attack on Middle East was State ...
By Activist
"This is one of many, many campaigns that happen all the time and never make it into the public domain," Alexander Klimburg, a cyber security expert at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, told Reuters. One thing we know for sure, ...
Activist Post

Flame: enormous cyber-attack revealed - Current news updates ...
By Megaan
According to the researchers, a composite targeted cyber-attack that collected private facts from countries such as Israel and Iran has been revealed. It is the one of the most complex threats ever revealed. The opinion of Kaspersky's chief ...
Current news updates, World current news

'Flame', the world's 'most sophisticated cyber weapon', discovered
By Andrew Couts
Russia-based cybersecurity firm Kapersky Lab has discovered the world's largest, most complex, and potentially most dangerous “cyber weapons” ever found. Known as “Flame,” the malware has been detected in machines across the Middle ...
Digital Trends

Skywiper – Fanning the “flames” of cyber warfare | Blog Central
By Peter Szor
Previously, other cyber threats such as Stuxnet and Duqu both required months of analysis and this threat is clearly a magnitude more complex. Just to give an idea of the complexity, one of its smaller encrypted module is over 70000 lines of C ...
Blog Central » McAfee Labs

'Flame' virus brings cyber war front to a new level « Iran Daily Brief
By Semantica
Iran has been a primary target in a vicious cyber-attack aimed at collecting and retrieving sensitive data. The virus, nicknamed Flame, is reported to be the one of the most complex viruses ever created, and security experts are comparing it to ...
Iran Daily Brief

Russian Security Firm Discovers Massive Cyber-attack [RT] Video
A powerful data-snatching virus targeting computers in Iran, Israel and other Middle Eastern countries has been discovered by Russian experts.
Disclose.tv

Tehran - Russian Firm: Iran Victim Of Another Cyberattack ...
By admin
Russian digital security provider Kaspersky Lab, which identified the virus, said in a release posted on its website late Monday that “the complexity and functionality of the newly discovered malicious program exceed those of all other cyber menaces known to date.” ... It considers Iran to be the greatest threat to its survival and repeatedly, if obliquely, threatened to attack Iran's nuclear facilities if Tehran doesn't abandon its uranium enrichment project, a key element of bombmaking.
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Is It Time For Another Stuxnet Attack On Iran? – Forbes | Blackmere ...
By Blackmere
The latest cyber weapon is known as “the flame” and one of its targets is Iran. It was discovered on Monday by Moscow cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab. Cyber warfare is the quietest way to make a military presence loud and clear. It is cyber ...
Blackmere Consulting

Doc's Talk: Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Iran
By GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givon
A cyber security agency in Iran said on its English website that Flame bore a "close relation" to Stuxnet, the notorious computer worm that attacked that country's nuclear program in 2010 and is the first publicly known example of a cyber weapon. ... "Their initial research suggest that this was probably written by the authors of Stuxnet for covert intelligence collection," said John Bumgarner, acyber warfare expert with the non-profit U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit think tank.
Doc's Talk

Cyber attack on Iranian oil ministry is 'most sophisticated' computer ...
A cyber-attack that targeted Iran's oil ministry and main export terminal was caused by the most sophisticated computer worm yet developed, experts have ...
www.rawstory.com/.../cyber-attack-on-iranian-oil-ministry-is-...

Iran said targeted in another cyberattack - Marine Corps News ...
JERUSALEM — A Russian-based Internet security firm says a powerful computer virus with unprecedented data-snatching capabilities has attacked machines ...
www.marinecorpstimes.com/.../ap-iran-said-targeted-in-anothe...

Kaspersky Lab and ITU Research Reveals New Advanced Cyber ...
Kaspersky Lab announces the discovery of a highly sophisticated malicious program that is actively being used as a cyber weapon attacking entities in several ...
www.kaspersky.com/.../Kaspersky_Lab_and_ITU_Research_R...

Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say | Hacker ...
A worm (as amateur as a 20mb one ) could easily be the work of those kind. But i think it gets less press than "evil country" "omg world cyber war" ...not that it ...
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Massive "Flame" cyber-attack in Middle East uncovered

Massive targeted cyber-attack in Middle East uncovered
CNET
Eugene Kaspersky, the founder and CEO of the Kaspersky compared the new virus with Stuxnet and said it appeared to open a new front in state-sponsored cyber warfare. However, he said its full significance won't be understood until more security ...

Massive 'Flame' Malware Stealing Data Across Middle East
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a massive cyber threat, dubbed Flame, that is targeting "sensitive" information across the Middle East. The malware, Kaspersky said, "might be the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet ...

New Massive Cyber-Attack an 'Industrial Vacuum Cleaner for Sensitive Information'
Forbes
The attack is being powered by a new and highly complex malware known as Flame which is said to “dwarf Stuxnet in size and sophistication.” Stuxnet was the malwarebelieved to behind the cyber-attacks on Iran's nuclear program in 2009 and 2010.

Forbes

Flame: 'Most complex' cyber-attack ever discovered
ZDNet (blog)
A new 'data-vacuuming' piece of malware, which has targeted a number of Middle Eastern countries including Israel and Iran, has been discovered, which could mark the trilogy in advanced cyber-weapons after Stuxnet and Duqu.

Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Middle East
msnbc.com
Security experts have discovered a new data-stealing virus dubbed "Flame" they say has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign. It is the most complex piece ...

msnbc.com

Massive cyber-attack discovered, Middle East targetted by Flame
Firstpost
Boston: Security experts have discovered a new data-stealing virus dubbed 'Flame'. Reports say it has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign.

Firstpost

Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say
Myjoyonline.com
A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said. Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed the malware, known as Flame, ...

New computer virus hits Iran, Palestinian Territories in unprecedented cyber ...
Haaretz
Internet security firm Kaspersky calls 'Flame' bug 'most sophisticated cyber-weapon yet unleashed,' hints it may have been created by makers of Stuxnet worm. By Oded Yaron | May.28, 2012 | 6:26 PM A man walks by computer network servers in California.

Haaretz

Massive cyber attack targeting Middle East discovered
Computer Business Review
Security researchers have uncovered a massive cyber attack that is attempting to steal data from Middle Eastern countries and has been operating undetected for up to two years. The malware, nicknamed Flame, is said to be targeting countries across the ...

Kaspersky uncovers major international cyber attack
TechRadar UK
"Unlike with conventional warfare, the more developed countries are actually the most vulnerable in this case." Chief security expert at Kaspesky Lab Alexander Gostev added that, "One of the most alarming facts is that the Flame cyber-attack campaign...

TechRadar UK

GM crop-trial website taken down by cyber-attack
The Guardian
Cyber-attackers took down the website on Sunday night of Rothamsted Research – an agricultural research institute in the UK conducting a GM crop trial, just hours after a failed attack on the institute's field of genetically modified wheat in Harpenden ...

The Guardian

Complex cyberwar tool 'Flame' found ALL OVER Middle East
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Because Flame is so super-complicated and because of the geography of the attack, Kaspersky Lab's global research and analysis team head Alexander Gostev said he was in "no doubt" that it was a state-sponsored worm. Flame is a cyber espionage program ...

'Flame' cyber attack could be most sophisticated ever
TechEye
Symantec has warned of a “highly sophisticated” threat, which its Security Response Team has claimed is on par with the Stuxnet and Duqu viruses. Symantec has announced that it has been analysing the W32.Flamer malware, a threat which is believed to ...

TechEye

Flame malware - more details of targeted cyber attack in Middle East
Naked Security
CrySyS's 63-page PDF report says that it began to analyse the malware earlier this month, and hypothesises that it was "developed by a government or nation state with signigficant budget and effort, and may be related to cyber warfare activities.

Naked Security

Kaspersky Lab and ITU Research Reveals New Advanced Cyber Weapon
IT News Online
Commenting on uncovering Flame, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, said: "The risk of cyber warfare has been one of the most serious topics in the field of informationsecurity for several years now. Stuxnet and Duqu belonged to a ...

Panetta: Cyber Attack Could Be 'Act Of War'
The Right Perspective
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Sunday that a crippling cyber attack on America's computer infrastructure would constitute an act of war – and he is working to engage China, the biggest culprit of such attacks, to prevent that point from ...

Australia vulnerable to cyber attacks: Kaspersky
The Australian Financial Review
Photo: Tamara Voninski The chief executive of security firm Kaspersky Lab has warned that Australia cannot defend itself from the rising tide of cyber attacks from foreign powers, the best of which come from Russia and China.

The Australian Financial Review

Flame spyware targets Iran
Inquirer
By Dave Neal THE CYBER SECURITY world is alight with reports about Flame, cyber espionage spyware that targets Iranian computers. Flame, the Flamer or, the Flame, depending on where you read about it, is the subject of a report from the Iranian ...

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The Week
Not surprisingly, a recent survey by McAfee, the internet security giant, named India among the nations least able to defend themselves against cyber attacks. Others on the list include Brazil, Romania and Mexico. Key web sites hacked into include that ...

The Week

Cyber threats bring increased business for Boulder-area data security firms
Daily Camera
It's more of a targeted attack." Ramirez said he's seen the rise of "malware-as-a-service" kits that are easy to obtain and install. High-profile cyber attacks made in the past decade have prompted the US government to ramp up its cybersecurity efforts ...

Flamer Cyber 'Super-Weapon' Caught Firing On Iran Infrastructure
TechWeekEurope UK
Flamer may be the most sophisticated cyber weapon ever seen. Thanks to Iran, fingers are already pointed at nation states A worm considered to be more complex than Stuxnet has been spotted attacking Iranian infrastructure, and it “might be the most ...

TechWeekEurope UK

'Cyber Superweapon' Is Largest And Most Malicious Ever Discovered
Huffington Post UK
A security firm in Russia has announced the discovery of a cyber weapon it says is larger, more damaging and more malicious than any found before. The malware can attack and steal data, and even record sound from a microphone and send it back to the ...

Cassidian demonstrates cyber security offering
Utilities-ME.com
by Adam Lane on May 28, 2012 Security firm Cassidian CyberSecurity has demonstrated an integrated cyber security offering to protect critical infrastructure such as power stations and oil & gas installations. Presenting at the Cyber SecurityForum for ...

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'Flame' surveillance worm described as one of the most complex threats ever ...
SC Magazine UK
A worm described as 'the the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed' has been detected attacking nations in the Middle East. Named 'Flame', researchers from Kaspersky Lab said that it shares many characteristics with Duqu and Stuxnet, ...

Kaspersky blames Flame malware attack on state sponsor
V3.co.uk
He said it was likely the perpetrators had no single source of information they were looking to gather, and was instead built for "general cyber-espionage purposes". "It looks like the creators of Flame are simply looking for any kind of intelligence ...

V3.co.uk

Meghan McCain Speaks on Cyber-Bullying, Becomes a Target
Christian Post
... of former Presidential candidate John McCain, has always been outspoken, recently addressing the problem of Internet, or cyber, bullying. However, after a television appearance this weekend, McCain found herself the subject of an attack on Twitter.

Christian Post

Iran uncovers Stuxnet-style Flame attack
V3.co.uk
by Dan Worth Iran claims to have uncovered a new high-profile malware attacktargeting its IT systems called Flame, following on from the Stuxnet and Duqu attacks dating back to 2010. The Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team (Maher) revealed it had ...

V3.co.uk

ITGP author holds training workshop at the IQPC International Cyber Security ...
Einnews Portugal
Hagestad's workshop will assess the cyber threat currently being deployed by China in order to better defend against the advanced persistent threat. Emphasising defensive measures to be taken against the attack, the workshop will provide a rundown of ...

Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say | Office of ...
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A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said. Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed the malware, known as Flame, ...
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Flame malware confirmed as most sophisticated cyber attack to date ...
Security experts have discovered a new data-stealing malware dubbed "Flame" they say has lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign.
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Talk of cyber terror attacks no longer fanciful - Lord Toby Harris
By Toby
“British intelligence picked up “talk” from terrorists planning an Internet-based attack against the U.K.'s national infrastructure, a British official said, as the government released a long-awaited report on cyber security. Terrorists have for some ...
Lord Toby Harris

Cyber Evo new aero designs revealed | World Time Attack Challenge
By ianbaker
We can reveal a sneak peek at what we can expect to see as the 2012 version of the reigning World Time Attack champion vehicle the Japanese CYBER EVO. Now partnered with Japanese bodykit giant C-WEST the new look car will certainly ...
World Time Attack Challenge

BBC News - Flame: Massive cyber-attack discovered, researchers say
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Massive cyber-attack discovered http://t.co/6QUX5Ge2. ... HelenaCLeurent says: RT @BBCNews: Massive and "most likely state-sponsored" cyber-attack on #Iran and #Israel discovered, researchers say http://t.co/A4e0fqO5 - 50 mins ago ...
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Kaspersky Lab and ITU research reveals new advanced cyber threat
By Charlie Fripp
Commenting on uncovering Flame, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, said: “The risk of cyber warfare has been one of the most serious topics in the field of information securityfor several years now. Stuxnet and Duqu ... The diverse nature of the stolen information, which can include documents, screenshots, audio recordings and interception of network traffic, makes it one of the most advanced and complete attack-toolkits ever discovered. The exact infection ...
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Backdoor found in a China-made US military chip « The Daily Attack
By RJ
... in computer and telecommunications equipment. The Stuxnet worm is the most famous and best case example of a cyber attack on a network which wreaked devastation having easily compromised conventional software defensive systems.
The Daily Attack

Comment: US Cybersecurity Posture is not Purely Defensive ...
By Joseph Fitsanakis
In reporting this in 2008, I wondered whether “the US, which has been building its own advancedcyber-attack arsenal since the mid-1990s, has more to gain from international cyber insecurity than do its adversaries”. I repeated this question in ...
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DDoS attack against 123-reg, the Chinese paranoia - Cyber Warzone
By Pierluigi Paganini
Posted on 27. May, 2012 by Pierluigi Paganini Tag: China, cyber espionage, cyber threats, cyber warfare, DDoS attack, hackers, hacking, hacktivism .... Authenticated users can skip the CAPTCHAsecurity measure. Image CAPTCHA ...
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Anonymous Takedown Bharatiya Janata Party, wants people to ...
By noreply@blogger.com (THN Reporter)
Leading resource in providing information & updates to security experts and hackers worldwide. ...Quebec Liberal Party websites take down in massive Cyber Attack ... Anonymous hater takes credit for Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Ddos Attack ...
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Massive cyber-attack discovered Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war ...
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TSP hit by cyber attack; participant info compromised -- FederalDaily ...
The overseer of the Thrift Savings Plan announced on May 25 that an April cyber attack on a computer operated by a third-party service provider may have ...
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NSA taps schools for cyber sleuths - Cybersecurity - Nextgov.com
Fake Parts Found at Defense; Cyberattack Hits Thrift Savings Plan; Your Guide to Management of Change; New Fed Digital Strategy: Security. News ...
www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2012/05/nsa-taps.../55931/

Cybersecurity News Round-Up: New Cyber Czar Amid Emerging ...
With several cybersecurity bills held up on the Hill, one top White House official has announced he won't be on the clock while the rest of us wait around to see ...
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Iranian hackers against NASA,isolated attack or cyber warfare act ...
Cyber warfare – Criminals or governments could use the stolen certificates to conduct “man-in-the-middle” attacks, tricking users into thinking they were at a ...
securityaffairs.co/.../iranian-hackers-against-nasaisolated-attack...

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