Researchers Say Flame and Stuxnet Share Common Authors

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."

Re:Yeah, no shit

[jandrese]

I don't think there are too many people who are overly skeptical of who made Stuxnet and Flame. The primary arguments seemed to be "Israel or the US, or Israel AND the US?" It seems pretty clear that both of these were a backdoor solution to a problem they felt could not be solved by diplomatic or economic means. Nuclear nonproliferation is something the world as a whole has been very bad at in the past, this could be one of the few success stories.

Kaspersky

[FlynnMP3]

Isn't anybody else besides Kaspersky discovering these things? On the one hand, it is in their best interest to find out as much as they can about this new kind of virus. On the other hand, I get a bit nervous when there appears to be only 1 source for information.