Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Iran

[IamK]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/powerful-flame-cyber-weapon-found-135931201.html

BOSTON (Reuters) - Security experts have discovered a highly sophisticated computer virus in Iran and the Middle East that they believe was deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage.

Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that claimed responsibility for discovering the virus.

Kaspersky researchers said on Monday they have yet to determine whether Flame had a specific mission like Stuxnet, and declined to say who they think built it.

Iran has accused the United States and Israel of deploying Stuxnet.

[Enrique]

1. are we headed for a flame war with Iran?

[lastlib]

2. "Headed for"?

It's already happening.

Don't doubt it.