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.
Vos Iz Neias (Yiddish: What's News?)
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 ...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033242
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