Flame, today's most sophisticated virus

Posted by Bimo Hery Prabowo On Selasa, 29 Mei 2012 0 comments
Flame, a computer virus that expressed the most advanced anti-virus vendors detected by Kaspersky. Party or the country which makes this virus? Kasperksy said the virus was almost certainly created by the government of a country. The sophistication of viruses and attacks that target the pattern of countries in the Middle East to strengthen the allegation.

Yes, Flame is very sophisticated. He can collect confidential data, change the settings in remote computer, turn on a computer microphone to record conversations, take screenshots, and copy the conversation in instant messaging.

"Flame is not designed to steal money from bank accounts. This virus is also different than a simple hack and malware tool that is used by hacktivist. So, to the exclusion of cyber criminals and hacktivist, we conclude that this virus is likely to come from third parties," wrote Alexander Gostev, researchers Kaspersky security.

The third party in question is the state government. Considering the complexity of the geography of the target of attacks and the threat level, there is no doubt that the Flame was sponsored by a particular country. "It seems the creator of Flame find all sorts of intelligence data - emails, documents, messages, discussions on the location sensitifi, everything," he added, as quoted from the V3, Tuesday (29/05/2012).

Kaspersky but refused to state where the suspect makes Flame. Symantec parties who are also researching this virus confirming a big party sponsored Flame. Given also the target of attacks against Israel and Saudi Arabia, the United States seems not to do so because both countries are close allies. So which country?