Flame Virus Sparks Cyber War Alert
A United Nations agency says it is poised to issue its “most serious” cyber security warning about the risk of the Flame computer virus, which was recently discovered in Iran and other parts of the Middle East. “This is the most serious warning we have ever put out,” said Marco Obiso, cyber security coordinator for the UN’s Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which is charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures. The confidential warning will tell member nations that the Flame virus is a dangerous espionage tool that could potentially be used to attack critical infrastructure, Mr Obiso said. “They should be on alert,” he said. “I think it is a much more serious threat than Stuxnet.” The warning is the latest signal that a new era of cyber warfare has begun, following the 2010 Stuxnet virus attack that targeted Iran’s nuclear program. Mr Obiso said he believed Flame was probably built on behalf of a nation state. Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that took credit for discovering Flame, has said that evidence suggests Flame may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm. The ITU is setting up a program to collect data, including virus samples, to track Flame’s spread around the globe and observe any changes in its composition. Kaspersky Lab said it found the Flame infection after the ITU asked the Russian company to investigate recent reports from …
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