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If you keep track of technology news, you must have heard about “The FLAME” which led to had caused substantial damage and massive data loss in what may be most destructive cyber attack on Iran. Today we will talk about what ”the FLAME” is and How to check if your system is infected by it too.Guests cannot see links. Registration or Login is required.


Kaspersky blog posts on FLAME:

>https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193538/Flame_Bunny_Frog_Munch_and_BeetleJuice

>https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questions_and_Answers

I read that it has been alive for over 5 years and still went undetected.

It's highly specialized - so far only about 1000 computer worldwide were infected - and these are primarily (middle-eastern) government PCs. It's was not made to collect credit card numbers or paypal account passwords, but for intelligence gathering activities. It was a product of a delibreate concentrated effort by a nation-state (or its defense contractor) to perform spying (perhaps sabotage) on a foreign government.

Ordinary folks have nothing to fear from it, there are far bigger online threats out there for the Average Joe.

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