Oh, we so loved Stuxnet, the little computer worm that could. It could and it did make life miserable for Iranian nuclear scientists as it wormed its way in and out, unimpeded and seemingly unstoppable, wreaking havoc with Iran’s nuclear facilities, for many months.
INN (H/T liz) Now, apparently, Stuxnet has an even more ominous successor. Iranian security experts report a virus far more dangerous than 
the Stuxnet worm has struck the country’s computer systems. Dubbed the “Flame,” the virus is one that has struck not only Iran, however, but a number of other enemies of Israel as well.
The country with the largest number of machines infected by Flame is believed to be Iran, following by the West Bank, and Sudan and Syria after that. Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have also been affected.
UH OH, NOT AGAIN?
THE MOST COMPLEX ‘CYBER WEAPON’ OF ALL TIME – WHAT FLAME DOES
The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, which attacked an Iranian uranium enrichment facility, causing centrifuges to fail.
It has about 100 times as much code as a typical virus designed to steal financial information, Kaspersky Labs said.
Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and log instant messaging chats.
He said there was evidence to suggest the code was commissioned by the same nation or nations that were behind Stuxnet and Duqu, which were built on a common platform. DAILY MAIL
The Flame ‘cyber weapon’ has been discovered in thousands of computers in the Middle East. The virus, discovered by security experts Kaspersky Labs, marks a new era in cyber warfare.
The virus, called ‘Flame’ is the third major cyber weapon uncovered after the Stuxnet virus that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010, and its data-stealing cousin Duqu, named after the Star Wars villain.
The virus is 100 times more complex than normal PC viruses, and designed to steal information – it can even turn on microphones on infected PCs to listen to conversations. All the viruses are so complex they are said to have required the resources of a nation state to create.
The Kaspersky Internet security firm is calling the “Flame” data-stealing virus the “most sophisticated cyber-weapon yet unleashed” and hinted it may have been created by the makers of the Stuxnet worm.
Kaspersky called the virus a “cyber-espionage worm” designed to collect and delete sensitive information, primarily in Middle Eastern countries.
The “Flame” has struck at least 600 specific computer systems in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority, Kaspersky malware expert Vitaly Kamluk told the BBC. He added that the virus has probably been operating discreetly for at least two years.
“This virus is stronger than its predecessor,” he said. “It is one that could only have been created by a state or other large entity.”
Problems in Iran’s computer systems are also continuing to surface in connection with the 2010 “Stuxnet” virus. The malware successfully disabled the computers that operated Iran’s uranium enrichment facility. More than 16,000 of the Natanz facility’s centrifuges were destroyed as a result of the cyber attack.
(Mr. BNI wonders if the name ‘FLAME’ was inspired by the Israeli organization FLAME (Facts and Logic about the Middle East)? FLAME
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Lord, that’s such fantastic news – what a concept!! And without firing a single bullet or dropping a single bomb!! Deadlier than deadlier – and wreaking just the sort of requisite destruction needed to disable Iran’s very real nuclear threat! I’m thinking only a country with as many whiz kids as Israel could come up with something like this – to say nothing about that fact that Microsoft has a major presence in Israel as well.
This is like a sci-fi movie/cartoon come to life! Bring it on!! And only using the brains & ingenuity with which GOD – NOT the Moon God Allah!! – endowed His children (His chosen PEOPLE, in fact…).
2 years harvesting their nasty little secrets. Wonderful.
Whomever wrote this worm is legend in my eyes & deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in pissing off “Moslems” bahahaha….
Amen! And ABSOLUTELY!! They SHOULD be given a Nobel Peace Prize for preventing mass destruction and havoc in the Mideast and around the world; but the libtards of the Nobel Committee chose instead to give the Prize to one of the most worthless muzscum supporting persons ever; our distinguished Arselifter-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama!! But take heart because in the final analysis GOOD WILL triumph over Evil!!
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I nominate the Israeli Flame programmers for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Two paws up!
AMEN!!!!! And DEATH TO ISLAM!!!!!
I love it!!!!! And I find myself lost for words. This is so awesome. I think we can rule out any assistance from Obama’s administration. Those are his friends and he wouldn’t do anything to hurt them. With all the new technology coming out of Israel, they probably don’t need any help. They have some really awesome programmers and hackers over there.
So they just up and take the guns out of Iran’s hands and left them the bullets. LOL.. AWESOME!!!!
Well a country which is able to hack a drone of latest type of America can easily cope with a stupid virus.
Danya, perhaps, but it will take them a year at least and by then there will be a new one. Tell me again what Iran has contributed to the world in terms of technology?
i looked up who and how many nobel prize awards were given, many for peace and yet no peace. iran got 1 for peace in 2003 to Shirin Ebadi
even obama got (bought one )one in 2009 for peace . if he can get one then anybody can get one
look up nobel prize by country there 28 pages worth
That drone was a gift from Obama. Israel hates Iran and they are trying to save their colletive arses. Obama doesn’t care about Israel or anybody else except his own arse.
Now you’re possibly unto something: that Obama DELIBERATELY had the Iranians capture that drone so as to give them an advantage?!? I wouldn’t put ANYTHING past him…
Does Obama merely care about himself? How about his fellow throat-slitters? He’s favouring them to come and help further dilute + undermine our Western Judæo-Christian civilisation as being more allies for his Commies…
One thing the Israelis will have to beware is when Iran decides to cut itself off from the Internet. Yours truly heard that not all that long ago they were aiming to construct their own Intranet that would have very little or no connectivity to the outside world. Once they do that, Israel will have to do something else…
ADHD, Israel has many spies in Iran. Not to worry.
Very dumb comment. The Flame Virus isn’t simply few lines of malicious code – it is 20MB of sophisticated code & has taken 2 years to discover it’s existence.
Kaspersky Labs have stated it could take several years to completely crack – by then others would take it’s place.
Because of it’s maniacal religious fanaticism, Iran will always be one step behind.
Meanwhile the Mhadi got tired of waiting & drowned in a cess pool of pig shit.
That’s awesome. So I wonder when we will hear screaching protests from American liberals, JudenRats and the aclu, that Israel is being cruel and racist.
Oh and I forgot the biggest muzzie cry baby of all, obama.
They should create a virus that automatically reroutes Moslems to anti-jihad websites so they can get DEPROGRAMMED.
If our intelligence agencies can do something this creative, they should bring brainpower together to invalidate Islam as an ideology and make it impossible for a sane person to give Islam any credence whatsoever.
God bless America. God bless Israel. May they prosper that love thee.
The Brits hacked an Al Queda website so that bomb making instructions became a recipe for the Perfect Cupcake.
The world hasn’t had any good news lately. Thank God someone is taking things into their own hands to keep the people of the world safe and free
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAH! May every ONE of the Iranian centrifuges go “ballistic”. ROFL!
ISRAEL FOREVER!!
KAFIR AND PROUD!
YES! WHOO! Go Israel! Like the Bible says, they are a blessing to all nations!
Seems like all these efforts still couldnot stop irans nuclear program.america and israel are wetting their pants and still couldnot stop.all their pathetic efforts are invain.
I don’t think the US OR Israel are wetting their pants. Come to think of it, they may just WANT Iran to get a nuke, only for it to go off right in the middle of Tehran, or, better yet, Mecca.
Now, THAT’s a computer virus that would do Humankind some good.
Danya, you’re missing the point (but muzzie-loving trolls usually do…): Namely, by disabling the centrifuges, the whole nuclear bomb-making/war mongering Iranian effort to create nuclear warheads is stalled – and mucho precious time is lost. Meanwhile, disabling these war machines is a MUCH more innovative & peaceful (if temporary) solution to the Mullocracy that has infested that Persian outpost…
The world wishes that Achmidinnahjacket and the Mullahs would just go away, die or otherwise leave Earth. They are a total scab on the entire world – and the poor people under their thumb are, basically, in prison (just like the rundown people of Cuba). Huis Clos – No Exit!!
The aim of this last seems to be intellegence gathering and data scrambling. Took two years to discover. Good run.
Personally, I’d rather the viruses had waited until the nuclear weapons were built, and then caused them all to go off on completion…
As it is, any victory against Mohammedanism is to be celebrated. As Mohammedanism declared war on all mankind, it makes sense to me that even the computers invented by (non-Mohammedan) humans are against Mohammedanism.
DS, this is the 3rd major virus Israel allegedly has sent to Iran, and each one is progressively more damaging. Surely this will not be the last one.
Well china got into our military payroll computers a few years back. Guess the press was not to interested it that. Oh well sucks to love freedom. The Malware is just one of many that are worming their way into our hearts.
Israel leads the way again. I just hope that Obama (the Muslim in Chief) doesn’t offer to fix the virus for Iran.
What surprises me most is that these bearded retards can figure out how to turn on a computer in the first place.
Ha! What surprises me most about the Jew hating Iran, is that they would use technology that was developed by a Jew (Jews)at all.
I thought most of the Muslim countries boycott anything Jewish or Israeli.
Hmmm. I guess, they boycott selectively in the same way, they hate the West, but not Western products like: mobile phones, cars, airplanes,video cameras, computers, machine guns, missile launchers and the internet, etc., etc.
There are 9 words that the muslems keep forgetting, (The Dumb Bastards) ” Don’t Fuck With The Jews Because You Always Lose ” !
More good news that the muslim countries of the middle east hell holes are being fried by their own evil computers. It matters not who, or how. The Why is the main reason and that is to demonstrate over and over again that the muslim countries add only chaos to the world.
It’s good news that the Iranian nuclear program has been stalled, and I mean stalled not stopped. It would have been a wiser move to simply declare war on Iran 1st strike head-on and drop bombs on Iran. That action would have been far more decisive. “What Goes Out Goes Round.” The creation of computer worms viruses opens a Pandora box of reponses. If cyber-warfare launches head-on driven not by evil independent hackers but by organised nations fighting each other, it shall without firing a shot destroy the entire global communication system. The ramifications are very complex and could gradually create global economic chaos, depression, civil strife and depression with mass unemployment. A global population of 7 Billion now depends upon computer communication to survive. Destroy that system in cyber-war and millions shall perish in poverty and starvation, including Western Nations. Most of us do not have the specialised clever skills of writing or even understanding computer code; hence hackers can wipe us out, even BNI is vulnerable. Firing bullets and virus weapons is like a homeing pigeon it will always come back. It would be better to fight Islam head-on in physical war than to engage in a counter cyber-war. Muslims may not be smart in their belief system, but many are clever and capable of writing computer code. Don’t underestimate the enemy that is when one can lose.
ALLAN, easy boy. Israel has been f*cking with Irans nuclear systems for at least 2 years now. Unless Iran can launch an emp explosion, they have their hands full trying to deal with the neverending worm problems that Israel is sending their way. It took them over a year to find Stuxnet, and now they have a much bigger problem to deal with. It’s all good.
But Israel has not taken military action off the table either. Perhaps they can disable all of Iran’s radar and tracking systems before they attack.
BNI,
I hope you are right- but I can see a global future of cyber-war as growing out-of-control and affecting the very survival of the free world. We can all fight a physical violent war; but only the best experts can win a cyber war. Our survival in such a battle could be in the hands of just a few technical genius skills. The balance of power could swing against us. I will never encourage cyber-war, such a battle is far more dangerous than traditional armed warfare; and equally as dangerous as any nuclear war.
Surely this cannot be a bad thing. Love it when Muslim plans blow up in their face.
I heard a rumour that the delivery method for the virus was via bestiality sites. Those Muslims just can’t stay away from an attractive goat.
If Iran launches a nuke it will be Israel NOT Iran who will be controlling it! I will straight back to Tehran! LONG LIVE ISRAEL!!
Vicki, what could easily happen is that the missile or delivery system would deliver said destructive device to Mecca or Medina,,, BOTH very holy sites to the mohammadans,,, And if Tehran were to launch during Ramadan? or one of the other pilgrimage seasons??? Oh, my what a calamity,,, for the followers of the pedophile “prophet” ,,, the trolls on this post have no understanding how badly they’ve already been burned,,,
How appropo that they call it “flame” – just as God has always used fire to cleanse and purify!