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Secret Flame: New Evidence of Mammoth Cyberspying Program Against Iran
(Christian Science Monitor) Mark Clayton - Digital forensic sleuths at two antivirus companies - Kaspersky Labs and Symantec - on Monday announced new discoveries regarding a program called Flame, an extensive cyberespionage operation apparently directed at Iran. The new analysis reveals traces of at least three more malicious programs targeting Iran. The discovery hints at a cyberespionage operation vast in scope, with more than five gigabytes of data uploaded from more than 5,000 infected machines to just one of the two command and control servers in Europe each week. Most of the infected computers were in Iran, some in Sudan, and a handful in other countries.