Russian security firm spots cyber supervirus that tops stuxnet - Cell Phone LCD Screens Manufacturer

"Over recent years the danger of military operations inCyberspace has been one of the most serious issues of informationsafety," Yevgeny Kaspersky, the firm's director, is quoted assaying in the statement. "Stuxnet and Duqu were parts of onecircuit of cyber attacks; their application raised concerns of apotential unleashing of global cyber war. Harmful Flame, mostlikely, is next stage of that war. It is important to understand,that this cyberweapon can be easily turned against any state." The firm said it found the virus accidentally, after it was hiredby the United Nations ' International Telecommunications Agency to trace the source ofunexplained glitches and deletions of sensitive information in theagency's Middle East operations. Nokia LCD Screens

A spokesman for Kaspersky toldjournalists yesterday that the virus' creator "remainsunknown," but it is probably a government, not only because ofits huge size and complexity, but also because it does not appearto be designed to steal bank account information or perform thesorts of tasks usually set by private criminal hackers. Stuxnet, which reportedly wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program , was designed to disrupt and destroy sensitive industrial systems.The new virus, which Kaspersky admits it does not yet fullyunderstand, appears to evade detection, bury itself deep, andcontinue siphoning off vital data for years. Iran's official Maher Labs, a division of Iran's telecommunicationsministry, said on its website today that "tools to recognize and clean this malware have beendeveloped and, as of today, they will be available for those[Iranian] organizations and companies who want it." Among the key characteristics of the virus, Maher said, are"distribution via removable medias and local networks, networksniffing, detecting network resources and collecting lists ofvulnerable passwords, scanning the disk of infected system lookingfor specific extensions and contents, creating series of user sscreen captures when some specific processes or windows are active,transferring saved data to control servers, and bypassing tens ofknown antiviruses, anti malware and other security software." The virus can infect computers running any Windows-based operatingsystem, it said. "We can clean this virus now, but we are still analyzing anddiscovering what it's capable of," says Vitaly Kamluk, chiefmalware expert at Kaspersky. "It took years to detect andunderstand Duqu and Stuxnet. Cell Phone LCD Screens Manufacturer

These were highly profesional toolsthat evaded us for a long time. Flame is the newest, but there's nodoubt that worse things may be out there. You can count onit.". Cell Phone Accesories