Wired - Threat Level: Why Antivirus Companies Like Mine Failed to Catch Flame and Stuxnet

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All antivirus companies, including F-Secure, missed detecting the Flame malware for two years, or more. That's a spectacular failure for our company, and for the antivirus industry in general, says Mikko Hypponen, chief security officer for Finnish security firm F-Secure.

By Mikko Hypponen
June 1, 2012

A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from Iran. It was sent by an analyst from the Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team, and it was informing me about a piece of malware their team had found infecting a variety of Iranian computers. This turned out to be Flame: the malware that has now been front-page news worldwide.

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