Iran, others hit with new cyber threat

bigpern23 · May 30, 2012

http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/29/tech/web/iran-spyware-flame/index.html

It's crazy the kind of espionage that can be done with this virus. Basically, the victim's computer will transmit any conversation the user has within its vicinity, among other things. It's pretty scary.

Among Flame's many modules is one that turns on the internal microphone of an infected machine to secretly record conversations that occur over Skype or in the computer's near vicinity; a module that turns Bluetooth-enabled computers into a Bluetooth beacon, which scans for other Bluetooth-enabled devices in the vicinity to siphon names and phone numbers from their contacts folder; and a module that grabs and stores frequent screenshots of activity on the machine, such as instant-messaging and e-mail communications, and sends them via a covert SSL channel to the attackers' command-and-control servers.
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heyabbott · May 30, 2012

If Israel could only find peace, they'd put Silcon Valley out of business.

bigpern23 · May 30, 2012

This paragraph cracked me up.

Kaspersky discovered the malware about two weeks ago after the United Nations International Telecommunications Union asked the lab to look into reports in April that computers belonging to the Iranian Oil Ministry and the Iranian National Oil Co. had been hit with malware that was stealing and deleting information from the systems. The malware was named alternatively in news articles as "Wiper" and "Viper," a discrepancy that may be due to a translation mixup.
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Reminded me of an old episode of G.I. Joe that, of course, found its way onto YouTube.

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