To know Flame, Best Computer Virus Complex in the World

TEHRAN-Virus the most complex computer in the world named Flame, has just been discovered by security experts. So how do this malicious computer virus?

Reported by the Telegraph, Tuesday (29/05/2012), Flame has a variety of complex surveillance capabilities, including the record talks quietly. Middle Eastern countries to be targeted and Iran has ordered the installation of the official computer emergency assessment, after a new virus known as the Flame was found.

In fact, security experts say the malicious software is 20 times more powerful other cyber malware, including viruses Stuxnet and can only be created by a state. Flame, a third cyber weapons systems that expose the Middle East region in recent years.

Flame also has the ability to threaten the vital information. Computer viruses can collect the data file, change the settings from a remote computer, turn on the computer microphone to record conversations, take screen shots (screen shot) and copy the text message conversations.

According to Kaspersky Labs, malicious programs that appear to have been released since five years ago and infects machines in Iran, Israel, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. "If the Flame was not found for five years, the only logical conclusion is that there are other ongoing operations and we do not know what it is," said a senior security researcher Kaspersky Roel Schouwenberg.

Schouwenberg disclosed, there is evidence suggesting that the virus code is assigned by the same nation or state behind Stuxnet and Duqu. But Crysys Lab, which analyzes computer Virus at the University of Budapest, said the technical evidence of an association between Flame, Stuxnet, and Duqu inconclusive.

To note, this virus does not spread itself automatically, but if the hidden controllers allow it.

Meanwhile, according to Alan Woodward of the Department of computing at the University of Surrey, Flame is a virus that is very disturbing. "It (Flame) was not written by a teenage fad. These viruses are large, complex, and intended to steal the data while in hiding for a long time, "he said.

Eugene Kaspersky founder of Kaspersky Labs also revealed, it takes 6 months to analyze Stuxnet and Flame 20 times more complicated than that.


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