PC Magazine - Security Watch: Flame Malware: Cybergeddon or Old News?

May 29, 2012
By Neil J. Rubenking

Over the holiday weekend the online news networks were abuzz with news of a "massive cyber threat" variously called Flame, Flamer, or sKyWIper. Researchers at Hungarian lab CrySyS stated, "sKyWIper is certainly the most sophisticated malware we encountered during our practice; arguably, it is the most complex malware ever found." In an ABC News interview, Udi Mokady, CEO of Cyber-Ark, an Israeli developer of information security, warned that Flamer is "20 times more sophisticated than Stuxnet... It's a live program that communicates back to its master. It asks, where should I go? What should I do now? It's really almost like a science fiction movie."

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