Computer Viruses Most Sophisticated Current

Antartika Raya - New computer virus that was mentioned most sophisticated found. The virus, dubbed Flame was reportedly intended to attack Iran and several countries in the Middle East.


Detected by anti-virus vendor Kaspersky is otherwise extremely complicated virus, 20 times more powerful than other cyberwarfare program has been detected. Including Stuxnet, the virus that never make a scene because it attacks Iran's nuclear facilities.

Therefore, the virus is almost certainly made ​​by the government of a country. Iran has repeatedly accused the West and Israel make malicious programs to attack them. Besides Stuxnet, a malicious program had ever hit Iran is Duqu.

Flame has advanced capabilities. As the gathering of confidential data, change computer settings remotely, turn on the computer microphone to record conversations, take screenshots and copied in instant messaging conversations.

Kapsersky themselves asking for help to understand this virus. They say the virus code 20 times the size of most of the malicious software programs. The virus is actually been around since 5 years ago and infected computers in Iran, Israel, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

"If Flame was not found for five years, the logical conclusion is that there are other ongoing operations we do not know," said Roel Schouwenberg, senior security researcher Kaspersky.

Professor Alan Woodward from the computer science department of University of Surrey justify the hassle viruses Flame. This malware can pick up information by copying typing on the keyboard and the sound around.

The virus is not made by a teenager in his room. The virus is a large, complex and intended to steal data while remaining hidden for a long time.