October 22, 2013

What is Flame?

Flame is a computer virus that contains a sophisticated attack toolkit, and which is a lot more powerful than previously encountered malware such as Duqu. It is extremely complex — about twenty times larger than the virus Stuxnet.

Flame has very advanced ability to carry out espionage, including intercepting network traffic, taking screenshots, and even recording conversations near to an infected computer — and its functionality can be extended with additional modules that can be created by the perpetrators at any time. All the data it gathers are sent to the authors of Flame via the Internet.

Given the way it works and how it is being deployed, Flame can be classified as a cyberweapon.

For more info please visit:

http://www.itu.int/cybersecurity/Articles/FAQs_on_FLAME.pdf