"Leading global cybersecurity firms on Monday announced the detection of a sophisticated new type of malicious code on hundreds of computers throughout the Middle East, with particular concentration in Iran, where the code, nicknamed “Flame,” has been capturing sensitive user information such as screenshots, emails, documents and audio files using a computer’s microphone.
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 removal tool, which it was ready to deliver to affected machines.
Although security researchers said that Flame’s authors could not be pinpointed with any certainty yet, Israel’s vice prime minister Moshe Ya’alon did not discourage speculation his country could have played a role.
“Whoever sees the Iranian threat as a serious threat would be likely to take different steps, including these, in order to hurt them,” Ya’alon was quoted referring to Flame, by Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post in an article published Tuesday.
Seizing on Ya’alon’s comments, Iranian news agency Fars on Tuesday accused Israel of being behind the worm."
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/flame-cyberwar-worm-trojan-iran-israel-middle-east.php?ref=fpa
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