Fanned by a security community hungry for the next Stuxnet, a new so-called superworm called “Flame” made headlines last week. Comparisons to the now infamous worm that attacked Iran’s nuclear development program quickly appeared. Flame may have been created by a nation state. It apparently targets countries in the Middle East. It gathers information, not money. But there are more ways to turn information into money than the naked snatching of credentials with a banking Trojan.
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Flame Is No Stuxnet
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. June 4, 2012 06:00 AMFanned by a security community hungry for the next Stuxnet, a new so-called superworm called “Flame” made headlines last week. Comparisons to the now infamous worm that attacked Iran’s nuclear development program quickly appeared. Flame may have been created by a nation state. It apparently targets countries in the Middle East. It gathers information, not money. But there are more ways to turn information into money than the naked snatching of credentials with a banking Trojan.