A cyber-attack which has covertly collected vast amounts of sensitive data from countries like Israel and Iran has been uncovered, Russian researchers say.

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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/flame/

The malware has the ability to infect a fully patched Windows 7 computer, which suggests that there may be a zero-day exploit in the code that the researchers have not yet found.

Microsoft licences out Windows source code to governments so I guess it would give state sponsored malware developers a bit of an advantage...

Ted.

nop public sample yet?

http://www.crysys.hu/skywiper/skywiper.pdf

skywiper.pdf

Edited May 30, 201213 yr by JeRRy

Now I wonder if we were pwned by this crap since It's been active for a while now :S

nop public sample yet?

I haven't looked at any of them to confirm but I think Malware.lu has a few binaries but not complete...

/>https://code.google.com/p/malware-lu/wiki/en_malware_flamer

Ted.

http://www.kernelmode.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1675

Its funny how funny this all has gotten ....

Here the govt had some ex nsa + CIA officials say they think stuxnet was a good idea....

Now they make and use cyber weaponry then cry about new white house botnet initiatives that need to be passed .... when we have been commanding and controlling since win98 bo2k and netbus days...

Funny.

That's gold, JeRRy! Gold!

Edited June 3, 201213 yr by 0xd4d