Researchers Say Flame and Stuxnet Share Common Authors 114
Trailrunner7 writes "Researchers digging through the code of the recently discovered Flame worm say they have come across a wealth of evidence that suggests Flame and the now-famous Stuxnet worm share a common origin. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab say that a critical module that the Flame worm used to spread is identical to a module used by Stuxnet.a, an early variant of the Stuxnet worm that began circulating in 2009, more than a year before a later variant of the worm was discovered by antivirus researchers at the Belarussian firm VirusBlokAda. The claims are the most direct, to date, that link the Flame malware, which attacked Iranian oil facilities, with Stuxnet, which is believed to have targeted Iran's uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz. If true, they suggest a widespread and multi-year campaign of offensive cyber attacks against multiple targets within that country."
Yeah, no shit (Score:5, Insightful)
If true, they suggest a widespread and multi-year campaign of offensive cyber attacks against multiple targets within that country
What's next, researchers discovering that the recent spate of assassinations [cnn.com] of Iranian nuclear scientists are SOMEHOW connected?
Anyone who hasn't realized (or *claims* not to have realized) by now that there has been an elaborate, multi-year shadow war by the CIA/Mossad trying to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program is either willfully-blind, retarded, or a shill. Christ, Mossad and the CIA barely even bother to *HIDE* it anymore. Everyone in their right mind knew what was really going on the second Stuxnet was dissected. And they certainly realized it the first time mysterious guys on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of a guy who just happened to also be a prominent nuclear scientist in Iran.
Of course, some willfully-blind, retarded shill out there is going to reply to this and say that those scientists killed themselves and that Stuxnet and Flame were actually created by Iran in an incredibly convoluted attempt to gain world sympathy. Such is true delusion.
Waste of Time (Score:0, Insightful)
They shouldn't be wasting time on deciphering the virus.
Just wait a few more months and the Obama Administration will leak the details
Re:The really scary thing (Score:2, Insightful)
MAD only works when all parties involved are relatively sane, and when there is proper security to keep the goodies out of the hands of folks who aren't sane...
IOW, I don't think that MAD is a good deterrent for an extremist religious fundie...
Re:The really scary thing (Score:4, Insightful)
To describe 10 million Iranians as "insane" smacks of anti-persian racism. It's the same kind of nonsense people said about blacks during WW2 ("They are not sane or intelligent enough to handle big equipment like tanks or planes.").
Re:Yeah, no shit (Score:4, Insightful)
Ignorance abounds. If turn the other cheek was an expression of defiance, what about the immediately following verse of giving your cloak too?