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Researchers Say Flame and Stuxnet Share Common Authors

Trailrunner7 writes "Researchers digging through the code of the recently discovered Flame worm say they have come across a wealth of evidence that suggests Flame and the now-famous Stuxnet worm share a common origin. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab say that a critical module that the Flame worm used to spread is identical to a module used by Stuxnet.a, an early variant of the Stuxnet worm that began circulating in 2009, more than a year before a later variant of the worm was discovered by antivirus researchers at the Belarussian firm VirusBlokAda. The claims are the most direct, to date, that link the Flame malware, which attacked Iranian oil facilities, with Stuxnet, which is believed to have targeted Iran's uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz. If true, they suggest a widespread and multi-year campaign of offensive cyber attacks against multiple targets within that country."

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  1. Yeah, no shit by crazyjj · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If true, they suggest a widespread and multi-year campaign of offensive cyber attacks against multiple targets within that country

    What's next, researchers discovering that the recent spate of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists are SOMEHOW connected?

    Anyone who hasn't realized (or *claims* not to have realized) by now that there has been an elaborate, multi-year shadow war by the CIA/Mossad trying to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program is either willfully-blind, retarded, or a shill. Christ, Mossad and the CIA barely even bother to *HIDE* it anymore. Everyone in their right mind knew what was really going on the second Stuxnet was dissected. And they certainly realized it the first time mysterious guys on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of a guy who just happened to also be a prominent nuclear scientist in Iran.

    Of course, some willfully-blind, retarded shill out there is going to reply to this and say that those scientists killed themselves and that Stuxnet and Flame were actually created by Iran in an incredibly convoluted attempt to gain world sympathy. Such is true delusion.

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    1. Re:Yeah, no shit by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

      Christ, Mossad and the CIA barely even bother to *HIDE* it anymore

      Wait. What?

      OK, the CIA and Mossad I get. Fine. That's what they do.

      But Jesus?

      What's he doing getting into electronic warfare? I thought he was supposed to be a nice guy, turn the other cheek and all that?

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    2. Re:Yeah, no shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      OP was referring to the young brother Jeezus Christ, not the better known Jesus H. Christ.

      Jesus vs. Jeezus.

  2. Re:Obviously by ColdWetDog · · Score: 4, Funny

    They all copied the code from Oracle. They'd better be prepared for a huge fine or a sales ban.

    No they didn't. Stuxnet and Flame actually work.

    QED.

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