Iran says detected massive cyber attack: state TV
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Flame authors order infected computers to remove all traces of the malware
The creators of the Flame cyber-espionage threat ordered infected computers still under their control to download and execute a component designed to remove all traces of the malware and prevent forensic analysis, security researchers from Symantec said on Wednesday. Flame has a built-in feature called SUICIDE that can be used to uninstall the malware from infected computers. However, late last week, Flame's creators decided to distribute a different self-removal module to infected computers that connected to servers still under their control, Symantec's security response team said in a blog post . The module is called browse32.ocx and its most recent version was created on May 9, 2012. "It is unknown why the malware authors decided not to use the SUICIDE functionality, and instead make Flamer perform explicit actions based on a new module," the Symantec researchers said. Deleting a file in Windows does not remove its actual data from the physical hard disk.
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Flame malware hijacks Windows Update to spread from PC to PC
The Flame espionage malware targeting Iranian computers contains code that can completely hijack the Windows update mechanism that Microsoft uses to distribute security patches to hundreds of millions of its users, security researchers said Monday. Flame components known as "Gadget" and "Munch" allow Flame operators to mount a man-in-the-middle attack against computers connected to a local network that hosts at least one machine already infected by the malware, Kaspersky Lab expert Alexander Gostev wrote in a blog post published Monday. By exploiting weaknesses in Microsoft's Terminal Server product—and poor key-management decisions made by Microsoft engineers—the Flame architects were able produce cryptographic seals falsely certifying that their malicious wares had been produced by Microsoft. According to Kaspersky's Gostev, Flame attackers have been using the same fraudulent Microsoft certificates to spoof the company's widely used Windows update mechanism.
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United Nations views Flame as cybersecurity opportunity | Security & Privacy
The United Nations has seized on the appearance of the Flame worm, which targeted computers in the Middle East, to argue that it should have more authority to deal with cybersecurity threats on the Internet. Last week, the United Nations' International Telecommunication Union circulated a statement about Flame saying the malware "reinforces the need for a coordinated response" that could come from "building a global coalition." It took credit for Flame's discovery, saying Kaspersky Lab identified it "following a technical analysis requested by the ITU." ITU spokesman Paul Conneally told CNET this morning that "the mandate that ITU has with regard to cybersecurity goes back to the World Summit on the Information Society, where world leaders gave ITU the mandate as sole facilitator for 'building confidence and security in the use of information and communication technologies.'" A U.S. "If we are not vigilant," warned Rep. "But nobody trusts the ITU," Lewis says.
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A Massive Web of Fake Identities and Websites Controlled Flame Malware | Threat Level
Map showing the number and geographical location of Flame infections on Kaspersky customer machines. Courtesy of Kaspersky Lab The attackers behind the complex Flame cyberespionage toolkit, believed to be a state-sponsored operation, used an extensive list of fake identities to register at least 86 domains, which they used as part of their command-and-control center, according to researchers at Russia-based antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab. Kaspersky says the size of the command-and-control infrastructure, which appears to have been still partially active a few days ago even after the operation was publicly exposed, exceeds anything they’ve seen before. “The huge amount of fake domains and fake identities used to run this infrastructure is pretty much unprecedented and unlike any other malware that we have seen before,” said Roel Schouwenberg, senior antivirus researcher at Kaspersky Lab. Chart showing the domains the attackers registered for Flame and the registration dates.
