A top Israeli minister yesterday fed speculation that the Jewish state could be responsible for a powerful new virus said to have been used in a fresh attack on computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.The discovery of the unprecedented complex data-stealing “Flame” virus was disclosed by a Russian-based digital security firm Kaspersky Lab. Its experts reported on Monday that it had been applied most actively in Iran, but also in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-hints-it-may-be-behind-supervirus-targeting-iran-7800935.htmlAlso see:Trojan targets Iranian and Syrian dissidents via proxy tool
Web users in Iran and Syria aiming to circumvent censorship controls are being targeted with spyware, according to security researchers.A team at the University of Toronto said installation software for the popular proxy tool Simurgh also implanted keylogging spyware.Simurgh is designed to anonymise net use and allow access to blocked sites.
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