Iran Discovers World's Most Sophisticated Virus

[Takaavar]

http://www.defence.pk/forums/irania...lds-most-sophisticated-virus.html#post2987325



Someone close the thread

 

[regular]

Looks like interesting game is going on in the CyberWarfare......

 

[500]

Genius Israeli, Unix-like OS's can NOT be affected by any VIRUS.

Learn a bit about how permissions work on Linux and don't make people laugh.

U can set same permissions on any OS.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

You are simpy unbelievable lamer. Open source code OS is much MORE vulnerable to viruses.

Iran will be better off developing a customized version of their own OS

 

[Takaavar]

Hmm logical answer

U can set same permissions on any OS.

What??!

 

[Jango]

It's really tredning on twitter and everywhere.

It has apparently affected the whole of Middle East. A specialsit on BBC was saying that they all know who the founder is, but can't say, but it is a government.

 

[Takaavar]

http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/bliss/mcafee_press.html
Bliss, a Linux virus
BS exposed.
The ONLY virus which has made so far for Linux is Bliss (which never became widespread). But even Bliss is not really a virus, I call it a virus-like malware, and as I said earlier, virus on Linux is a joke and doesn't make sense, learn how permissions work on Linux and you'll find out why. These are ABCs and you obviously have no idea about hack & security. And you laugh at me.. Anyway, good to see some Israel-ish logic again

 

[Bratva]

U can set same permissions on any OS.

Then why US predator Drones were shifted to Linux from Windows based OS?

 

[500]

Bliss is neither first nor the only linux virus.

A history of viruses on Linux - Neowin
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3601946

 

[ihealugo]

most of the web servers are Linux, but they have been hacked for several times, this show that Linux is a joke too

 

[PteX]

The title is inaccurate. It should read "Iran violated by World's Most Sophisticated Virus, worse than any other Arab nation".
Because this is what has happened, they did not discover it instantly, it was there for longer than they can imagine.
They cannot even understand it.

 

[ZABASHO]

LONDON — No prize for guessing who is getting the blame – or should that be the credit – for creating a new spyware super bug reported to have infected computers throughout the Middle East.

“Nice one Israel. Proud of you!” a reader posted on the Haaretz newspaper’s Web site under a report about the “most sophisticated cyber-weapon yet unleashed” attacking computers in Iran, the West Bank, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

The new virus, called Flame, was identified on Monday by Kaspersky Labs, a security research firm in Moscow.

Worm.Win32.Flame aka #TheFlame is professionally designed to carry out cyber espionage. Learn more: ******/bckKA #malware

— Kaspersky Lab (@kaspersky) May 28, 2012

As Nicole Perlroth writes over at the Bits blog: “If the report’s findings prove to be true, Flame would be the third major Internet weapon to have been discovered since 2010.”

An earlier virus, Stuxnet, was used to destroy centrifuges at an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010. The unidentified programmers behind Stuxnet were also credited with devising the Duqu virus, used for reconnaissance.

Moshe Ya’alon, Israel’s vice premier, fuelled speculation of Israeli involvement on Tuesday when he told Army Radio: “Whoever sees the Iranian threat as a serious threat would be likely to take different steps, including these, in order to hurt them.”

Israel is a country blessed with superior technology, he said, adding: “These achievements of ours open up all kinds of possibilities for us.”

Iran appeared to be the principal target of the new computer worm, described by Alexander Gostev, Kaspersky’s head of research, as so big and sophisticated that it redefined the notion of cyberwar and cyberespionage.

Nicole quotes researchers who said the complexity of the super bug, and the geography of its targets, suggested it was the work of a government.

The earlier Stuxnet worm is credited with having slowed down Iran’s nuclear program, which Israel, the United States and other states believe is geared towards producing a nuclear bomb.

Intelligence and military experts have said the effectiveness of Stuxnet was tested at the Dimona nuclear complex in Israel in a joint U.S.-Israeli effort to undermine the Iranian program.

Kaspersky, which discovered the Flame virus during research on behalf of the International Telecommunication Union, said it had so far found no similarities with Stuxnet and Duqu. However, “the Flame malware looks to be another phase in this war,” said Eugene Kaspersky, the research lab’s chief executive.

The International Telecommunication Union is the United Nations agency for information and communications technology. It was acting on reports that computers at Iran’s oil ministry and its national oil company had been hit with malware that was stealing and deleting information from their systems.

As with Stuxnet and Duqu, no government is likely to put its hand up. But some experts are already convinced about where responsibility lies.

“The country that brought us Iranian nuclear assassinations, explosions at Iran missile bases, and Stuxnet, is at it again,” wrote Richard Silverstein on Israel’s liberal Tikun Olam Web site under the headline: “Israel’s new contribution to Middle East cyberwar.”

“The goal is apparently to infiltrate the computers of individuals in Iran, Israel, Palestine and elsewhere who are engaged in activities that interest Israel’s secret police, including military intelligence,” Mr. Silverstein said, suggesting Israeli intelligence might even be using the worm to spy on its own citizens.

Israel Gets the Blame for Flame Virus - NYTimes.com

 

[LegionnairE]

linux is the far most safest OS out there.

 

[Developereo]

Various components of Flame/Skywiper enable those behind it, who use a network of rapidly-shifting “command and control” servers to direct the virus.

What kind of a moron hooks up sensitive computers to the internet?

 

[ZABASHO]

What kind of a moron hooks up sensitive computers to the internet?

ouch trick question....... Ans: An Iranian govt. employed nuclear scientist