The Vienna Connection? Trying To Stamp Out Flame, Researchers Find Clues To Its Origins

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab, domain registrar GoDaddy and OpenDNS have taken steps to cut off Internet access for machines infected with the Flame worm. In the process, the researchers say they uncovered a large and complex command and control infrastructure of more than 80 Web domains and...

Flame Malware Spread Via Rogue Microsoft Security Certificates

Flame Malware Spread Via Rogue Microsoft Security Certificates Microsoft released an emergency Windows update on Sunday after revealing that one of its trusted digital signatures was being abused to certify the validity of the Flame malware that has infected computers in Iran and other Middle...

Flame Malware Uses Forged Microsoft Certificate to Validate Components

Microsoft has found that some components of the Flame malware were signed using a forged digital certificate that the attackers were able to create by exploiting a weakness in the way that Microsoft’s Terminal Services allows customers to sign code with Microsoft certificates. The company has sen...

Flame Malware Raises Need for Open Talk on Use of Cyberweapons

The discovery of the Flame malware has raised a number of questions, some mundane, some interesting and many unanswerable at this point. But the point that’s most interesting also is the one that likely will go unaddressed for the foreseeable future, and that is, the need for a serious, open...

DHS Says No Evidence That Flame Targets Industrial Systems, But Urges Caution

In and advisory, the Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial control System ICS CERT said that it doesn’t believe the Flame malware targets industrial control systems ICS or SCADA systems, but the group advised critical infrastructure owners to be on alert. The advisory, issued Wednesday,...

Behind the Flame Malware

The Flame malware has garnered a lot of attention in the last few days, but there’s also been quite a lot of confusion about what it can do and what its implications are. In this video from PBS Newshour, Dave Shackleford of IANS and Catherine Lotrionte of Georgetown University discuss the worm’s...

#Flame Malware - 21st Century Massive cyber attack on Iran

Flame Malware - 21st Century Massive cyber attack on Iran A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyber-espionage operation. The Flame computer virus not only...

What's the Meaning of This: Flame Malware

From all indications, it would appear that attackers are continuing to attack and malware authors are carrying on writing malware. The latest bit of evidence to support these conclusions is the discovery of the Flame malware, which, initial analyses show, is an advanced data-stealing tool that is...