Flame the computer virus, including a cyberarme designed to steal documents from the Iranian nuclear program, has links with Stuxnet software that was also taken in Tehran, said Monday, June 11 the Russian security company Kaspersky.
Alexander Gostev, a specialist in Russian society, said in a blog that an initial analysis showed that both programs were not related. "But it turned out we were wrong," he said. "Our research has revealed some information that totally change the way we thought Stuxnet was created and its relationship Flame".
This statement comes just after the U.S. company Symantec computer security said Sunday on his blog that Flame had been ordered to disappear without a trace.
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TWO TEAMS OF PROGRAMMERS
Although discovered more recently, Flame would pre Stuxnet, created in 2009, continued Mr. Gostev."The Stuxnet code uses a programming construct designed to Flame and probably developed specifically to work with Stuxnet". This suggests the existence of "two independent teams of programmers," linked together, and "each working on its own platform from 2007-2008 at the latest," he said, adding that Flame could date of summer 2008 .
Flame the virus was detected in different regions of the world including the Middle East, Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, Iran being the first country targeted in the attacks. The Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Yaalon, has recently justified the use of powerful computer virus to counter the Iranian nuclear threat, fueling speculation about a possible Israeli involvement in this computer program. Flame existed for four years, but had been identified by Kaspersky as the end of May, who noted that the sophistication of the virus used for the "cyber spying" was such that he assumed the assistance of a State.
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