Flame virus linked to Stuxnet virus that has attacked computers in Iran

Paul Lin

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Flame virus linked to Stuxnet: researchers »

Eugene Kaspersky, whose lab discovered the Flame virus that has attacked computers in Iran and The Flame computer virus which has been raging in the Middle East has strong links to Stuxnet, a malware ...

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Jan Dennis Bungart

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'"Universities don't want to touch [hacking], they don't want to have the perception of teaching people how to subvert things," says Steven LaFountain, an NSA official'

No, you idiot, they don't want to touch it because you made it illegal. Should've thought about what you were doing at the time.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/06/08/nsa-built-stuxnet-but-real-trick-is-building-crew-of-hackers

NSA Built Stuxnet, but Real Trick Is Building Crew of Hackers - US News and World Report »

Finding people skilled enough to wage cyberwarfare is increasingly difficult, experts say.

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Martin Eschenberg

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#Flame #Stuxnet

Source code smoking gun links Stuxnet AND Flame • The Register »

The New York Times revealed this month that Stuxnet's infiltration of Iran's nuclear programme, and subsequent knackering of the Middle East nation's uranium centrifuges, was a joint effor...

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Mrs. Y Iswhy

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Back to Stuxnet: the missing link »

Two weeks ago, when we announced the discovery of the Flame malware we said that we saw no strong similarity between its code and programming style with that of the Tilded platform (http://www.secure...

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'Conclusive' Link Found Between Stuxnet And Flame - Dark Reading »

Dark Reading is the premier online resource helping information security professionals manage the balance between protection and access. It offers breaking news and analysis on attacks, breaches and v...

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Aleksander Cynarski

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NSA Built Stuxnet, but Real Trick Is Building Crew of Hackers - US News and World Report »

Finding people skilled enough to wage cyberwarfare is increasingly difficult, experts say.

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Thomas Boussekey

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Flame and Stuxnet creators cooperated in early development »

Suggesting the worms were developed by the same development teams

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Linda Lawrey

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Security researchers say they've found a conclusive link between the Flame espionage malware and Stuxnet, the powerful cyberweapon that US and Israeli officials recently confirmed they designed to sabotage Iran's nuclear program.

Discovery of new “zero-day” exploit links developers of Stuxnet, Flame | Ars Technica »

Windows exploit code in Flame also used in Stuxnet.

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Rich MillerYesterday 4:08 PM

Once upon a time our government had secure computers. Communications was by Autodin which was a secure network. Autodin was even protected by lead vaults. Anything less than that is open to attack(hacking).

josé rodrigoYesterday 5:49 PM

legal !!!

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Alister Macintyre

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Diving Into Flame, Researchers Find A Link To Stuxnet »

Collaborators: Dennis Fisher Paul Roberts Researchers digging through the code of the recently discovered Flame worm say they have come across a wealth of evidence that suggests Flame and the now-famous Stuxnet worm share a common origin. Researchers for Kaspersky Lab say that an in-depth analysis of the code of the recently discovered Flame worm suggest that it has strong links to the now-famous Stuxnet worm that suggest a common origin for ...

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Alex von Wittig

Yesterday 1:39 PM  -  Public

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57450292-83/shared-code-indicates-flame-stuxnet-creators-worked-together/

Shared code indicates Flame, Stuxnet creators worked together »

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab say code is shared in the two threats and that there was an exploit in Stuxnet that was previously unknown. Read this blog post by Elinor Mills on Security & Privacy.

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David Kokua

Yesterday 5:05 PM  -  Public

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/confirmed-us-israel-created-stuxnet-lost-control-of-it/

Confirmed: US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it | Ars Technica »

Stuxnet was never meant to propagate in the wild.

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chalky scoot12:05 AM

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How many times has this happened with a plethora of software environmental and social situations. Humans always manage to screw it up 

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Gabriele Ninci

Yesterday 2:16 PM  -  

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Researchers discover the wheel and the fire...

Researchers Connect Flame to US-Israel Stuxnet Attack (Kim Zetter/Wired) »

Kim Zetter / Wired: Researchers Connect Flame to US-Israel Stuxnet Attack — The sophisticated espionage toolkit known as Flame is directly tied to the Stuxnet superworm that attacked Iran's centrifuges in 2009 and 2010, according to researchers who recently found that the main module in Flame contains code …

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Dinesh Kh

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Flame malware creators also behind Stuxnet attack | Meerang »

The Flame malware that attacked Iranian government computer systems and that first came to light in May appears to have been created by the same authors of the infamous Stuxnet attack. The link was di...