Cyber Attacks on Iranian Oil Ministry

[Dillon]

    Recently, cyber agencies had discovered a new malware twenty times more powerful than Stuxnet nicknamed flame, flame is designed to spy on the Iranian Oil Ministries computer's the Malware was announced May 28th (it has been announced lightly in April) and has many abilities including recording Skype conversations and can record audio, screenshots, keyboard activity and network traffic and can even turn infected computers into Bluetooth beacons which attempt to download contact information from nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices. No one knows who designed it and it is confusing because it is massive 20Mb to be exact, some sources believe the same people who designed Stuxnet are responsible for it's design.

References:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/world/middleeast/iranian-oil-sites-go-offline-amid-cyberattack.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/23/iranian-oil-ministry-cyber-attack
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/28/cyber-attack-on-iranian-oil-ministry-is-most-sophisticated-computer-worm-yet/
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-04/23/c_131545960.htm
I suppose some credits to wikipedia as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_(malware)

[Mikal]

Something to do with another countrys government maybe?

[JDC]

The theory of it being sponsored by a nation-state seems to be the most credible one, also judging from its functionality. A lot of money must have been spent on programming this complex.

I won't be surprised if the US or another opponent of Iran did it.

[Mikal]

The theory of it being sponsored by a nation-state seems to be the most credible one, also judging from its functionality. A lot of money must have been spent on programming this complex.

I won't be surprised if the US or another opponent of Iran did it.

Has to be the US. :roll:

[Dillon]

Actually, it's well suspected Israel did it with the support of the US, kind of like StuxNet because whenever StuxNet was mentioned around the leaders they all smiled.