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Off-Topic => General discussions => Topic started by: soarwitheagles on May 30, 2012, 07:33:46 am

Title: Watch out for the Flamer Virus!
Post by: soarwitheagles on May 30, 2012, 07:33:46 am

Hey, just see this warning popping up all over the internet here in the USA.

Flamer virus quite sophisticated causing some wonderful challenges!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/05/29/the-real-flame-wars-w32-flamer-found-all-over-the-middle-east/

http://www.bcs.org/content/conWebDoc/45237

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/29/flame_cyberweapon_analysis/

Don't get toasted dear friends!  Kaspersky has also issued a strong warning....

A quote from CrySyS Lab of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics:

"sKyWIper is certainly the most sophisticated malware we encountered during our practice; arguably, it is the most complex malware ever found."

Finally, a quote from Kaspersky Labs on this monster: Kaspersky Labs stated that a full analysis could require as long as ten years.

How lovely!

Soar

Title: Re: Watch out for the Flamer Virus!
Post by: absic on May 30, 2012, 07:50:51 am

I wouldn't get too hung up on this as it seems Iran has got a solution. : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18253331

Title: Re: Watch out for the Flamer Virus!
Post by: soarwitheagles on May 30, 2012, 10:24:26 am

Quote from: absic on May 30, 2012, 07:50:51 am

I wouldn't get too hung up on this as it seems Iran has got a solution. : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18253331

Absic,

You are right.  It appears to have infected a very small number of computers...

Thanks,

Soar

Title: Re: Watch out for the Flamer Virus!
Post by: Dark Mantis on May 31, 2012, 11:22:06 am

Unless you are a moslem with a hobby of enriching uranium I don't think there is much to fear. It would seem to have been built by the <cough> USA <cough>  as an alternative to smart bombs.   ;)

Title: Re: Watch out for the Flamer Virus!
Post by: henkelbritta on May 31, 2012, 05:45:43 pm

Quote from: Dark Mantis on May 31, 2012, 11:22:06 am

Unless you are a moslem with a hobby of enriching uranium I don't think there is much to fear. It would seem to have been built by the <cough> USA <cough>  as an alternative to smart bombs.   ;)

Good one :D