Let the fingers do the Stalking
A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said.
This new threat appears not to cause physical damage, but to collect huge amounts of sensitive information, said Kaspersky’s chief malware expert Vitaly Kamluk.
“Once a system is infected, Flame begins a complex set of operations, including sniffing the network traffic, taking screenshots, recording audio conversations, intercepting the keyboard, and so on,” he said.
Kaspersky told the BBC that Flame had been operating since August 2010 and believed the attack was state-sponsored, but could not be sure of its exact origins and more likely to be government-backed.