Search result for flame malware

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We have a Flame malware fix claims Iranian government

Chris Davies, May 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

... program that can detect and remove the Flame malware, promising to release the tool ..."Tools to recognise and clean this malware have been developed" the Iranian Ministry ... and organizations in the country. While Flame's exact infection pattern is still a...

Flame malware developed by US, Israel to slow Iranian nuclear efforts

Rue Liu, Jun 19th 2012 Discuss [24]

It turns out that the massive Flame malware attack last month was a ...the use of the infamous Stuxnet virus. The Flame virus was first discovered last month when ... is said to be the most sophisticated malware discovered to date. Masquerading as a ...

Microsoft releases certificate updater in response to Flame malware

Rue Liu, Jun 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

In response to the recent Flame malware attack, Microsoft has released a ...List," which is updated daily. The massive Flame malware was able to spread by ...of untrusted certificates daily, these types of malware attacks can be more quickly diffused ...

Iranian oil industry battled complex Flame virus last month

Shane McGlaun, May 31st 2012 Discuss [4]

... computers in the oil industry was the Flame malware. Security experts have said that Flame.... While it's still unknown where Flame originated, suspicious fingers have been pointed ...'s top oil exporters. The origins of Flame are unknown, but some experts you ...

Microsoft fixes Windows flaw exploited by Flame

Rue Liu, Jun 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

... fixes a serious flaw in Windows that was exploited by the Flame malware attack last month. ...In researching the methods used by the Flame virus, Microsoft discovered that the attack... algorithm. It allowed parts of the malware to be signed by certificates ...

Flame named a cryptographic marvel; Infected PCs commit suicide

Chris Davies, Jun 8th 2012 Discuss [2]

... reasonably stable. According to Symantec, the Flame operators used what command and ... chosen-prefix collision attack devised for Flame." That attack involved mimicking Microsoft ...complexity of the malware has led to assumptions that Flame was created ...

Flame cyber-espionage discovered in vast infection net

Chris Davies, May 28th 2012 Discuss [5]

... PCs in Iran and nearby countries. Spotted by Kaspersky Lab, "Worm.Win32.Flame" blends features from backdoor, trojan and worm malware, and once surreptitiously loaded onto a target machine can monitor network ...

Gauss malware eats banking details: Flame just got hotter

Chris Davies, Aug 9th 2012 Discuss [2]

... While it shares features with Stuxnet and Flame, Gauss is said to be more complex... not discovered by regular local-drive anti-malware scans. Approximately 2,500 machines are believed... more than three times as many as Flame - since what's said to have ...

Batchwiper malware wipes disk partitions on Iranian computers

Brittany Hillen, Dec 17th 2012 Discuss [6]

... bout of damage, this time from the malware Batchwiper, which, as its name suggests,... to machine. Some speculate that the malware is transferred via external drives, such... attacks Iran has been dealt, including Flame. An Iranian CERT advisory stated, ...

New Trojan ‘Shamoon’ leaves PCs unbootable

Eric Abent, Aug 17th 2012 Discuss [11]

...-virus companies have dubbed "Shamoon." Like most malware, Shamoon exists to steal data from ... it infected, reminding Kaspersky of the Wiper malware, which attacked PCs in Iran earlier ... in turn led to the discovery of Flame. Kaspersky says that it isn't ...

Barricade the door against the paedophile-menace

Chris Davies, Feb 5th 2007 Discuss [2]

...bed and inside every small rucksack there's a virus-writing, malware-scripting paedophile waiting not only to vigorously molest your children ... Global Security One are here not only to stoke the flames of pants-wetting fear but also offer up our salvation. ...