Like Duqu and Stuxnet, Flame is one of the massive cyber wepon ever discovered which was specially designed to perform cyber espionage as well as retrieve valuable and important information (read: steal) without you knowing it.
This malware was identified when UN’s International Telecommunication Union came to experts at Kaspersky Lab for help in finding an unknown piece of malware which was deleting sensitive information across the Middle East.
This new malware is known as Worm.Win32.Flame, Flame for short.
Researchers says " It’s big and incredibly sophisticated. It pretty much redefines the notion of cyberwar and cyberespionage."
"Flame is a huge package of modules comprising almost 20 MB in size when fully deployed. Because of this, it is an extremely difficult piece of malware to analyze. The reason why Flame is so big is because it includes many different libraries, such as for compression (zlib, libbz2, ppmd) and database manipulation (sqlite3), together with a LUA virtual machine. "
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