Researchers Connect Flame to U.S.-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 that is nearly identical to a module that was used in an early version of Stuxnet.
Researchers at Russia-based Kaspersky Lab discovered that a part of the module that allows Flame to spread via USB sticks using the autorun function on a Windows machine contains the same code that was used in a version of
What the influencers are saying
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jcran
RT @e_kaspersky: #TheFlame was used to kickstart #Stuxnet http://t.co/fYeRDxY8 <- Flame could be older that Stuxnet. What else is out there?
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Sam Bowne
Researchers Connect Flame to U.S.-Israel Stuxnet Attack http://t.co/pYae4SkK
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Ryan Naraine
Researchers Connect Flame to U.S.-Israel Stuxnet Attack http://t.co/EANAFnMI (story by @KimZetter)
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Dr. Anton Chuvakin
Researchers Connect Flame to U.S.-Israel Stuxnet Attack http://t.co/aY2aqCJ3 via @prismatic <- not entirely unsurprising
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