Researchers find 'missing link' between Flame and Stuxnet malware
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When cybersecurity experts at Russia's Kaspersky Lab first uncovered Flame, the computer espionage worm infecting thousands of systems throughout the Middle East, they claimed that it "has no major similarities with Stuxnet," the reportedly US / Israeli-developed cyberweapon that began targeting Iranian nuclear facilities in 2009. But in examining an earlier version of Stuxnet, the lab's researchers now find that they were wrong: a previously overlooked module within the virus is now providing the "missing link" between the two pieces of malware. »read more
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