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Report: US and Israel Behind Flame Espionage Tool

The United States and Israel are responsible for developing the sophisticated espionage rootkit known as Flame, according to a news report, which says it was part of the same 'Olympic Games' project...

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Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel

Mahdi, a new piece of spyware found targeting more than 800 victims in Iran and elsewhere, has been stealing documents and recording conversations since last December.Who knew that when the Messiah...

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Flame and Stuxnet Cousin Targets Lebanese Bank Customers, Carries Mysterious...

A newly uncovered espionage tool, apparently designed by the same people behind the state-sponsored Flame malware that infected machines in Iran, has been found infecting systems in other countries in...

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Researchers Seek Help Cracking Gauss Mystery Payload

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to infected machines by the recently discovered Gauss malware toolkit. They're...

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Wiper Malware That Hit Iran Left Possible Clues of Its Origins

Kaspersky Lab has released new details about its investigation of Wiper, the malware that attacked Iran's oil industry in April. Circumstantial clues suggest possible connections to Stuxnet and DuQu.

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Coders Behind the Flame Malware Left Incriminating Clues on Control Servers

The attackers behind the nation-state espionage tool known as Flame accidentally left behind tantalizing clues that provide information about their identity and that suggest the attack began earlier...

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State-Sponsored Malware ‘Flame’ Has Smaller, More Devious Cousin

Researchers have uncovered new nation-state espionage malware with ties to two previous espionage tools known as Flame and Gauss, and that appears to be a "high-precision, surgical attack tool"...

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From Internet Uprisings to John McAfee: The Year in Privacy and Security

From gun-toting, on-the-lam tech giants to flying drones and internet uprisings, these are the privacy and security stories that dominated Threat Level in 2012.

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Stuxnet Missing Link Found, Resolves Some Mysteries Around the Cyberweapon

A new variant of the sophisticated cyberweapon known as Stuxnet has been uncovered by researchers and may have been released in 2007, two years earlier than previously uncovered versions of the code,...

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Flame Windows Update Attack Could Have Been Repeated in 3 Days, Says Microsoft

When the sophisticated state-sponsored espionage tool known as Flame was exposed last year, no one was more concerned about the discovery than Microsoft, after realizing that the tool was signed with a...

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