NetworkWorld - Privacy and Security Fanatic: Flame's vicious sibling miniFlame malware, a cyber-espionage 'surgical attack tool'

A new Kaspersky Lab report revealed that a vicious cyber-espionage malware sibling was spawned from Flame. miniFlame is Flame's own evil Mini-Me which can work as a backdoor so operators can snag any file from an infected machine. It can take screenshots when specific Microsoft programs, Adobe Reader, instant messengers, FTP, or web browsers are open. It's also believed that SPE/miniFlame is in the wild.

By Ms. Smith
10/15/12

The cyber-espionage malware Flame has a vicious little sibling called miniFlame, according to a Kaspersky Lab report released today. This small, "high-precision, surgical attack tool" can operate as a standalone, without the Flame main modules, or as a component controlled by Flame or the espionage program Gauss. miniFlame is the first solid link that proves Flame and Gauss came from the same "cyberweapon factory." Six different modifications of SPE, meaning miniFlame, have been identified so far, but Kaspersky researchers "believe that the developers of miniFlame created dozens of different modifications of the program."

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