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post #11 of 38
5/28/12 at 4:33pm
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They found this in 2010, and its JUST coming out in the media now.. slow news day?

Read carefully!
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Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed the malware, known as Flame, had been operating since August 2010.
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5/28/12 at 4:43pm
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Originally Posted by E-Peen View Post

Read carefully!
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Russian security firm Kaspersky Labs told the BBC they believed the malware, known as Flame, had been operating since August 2010.

How about you read carefully!
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Kaspersky's first recorded instance of Flame is in August 2010, although it said it is highly likely to have been operating earlier.

Hence they found it in 2010
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5/28/12 at 4:47pm
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How about you read carefully!
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Kaspersky's first recorded instance of Flame is in August 2010, although it said it is highly likely to have been operating earlier.
Hence they found it in 2010

Very good catch my friend! I stand corrected smile.gif
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5/28/12 at 4:49pm
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All good smile.gif. Again i don't know why this is just coming out now, they must have it contained so it can be public knowledge.
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post #15 of 38
5/28/12 at 5:21pm
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I find it a bit suspicious that every time a major threat in computer security is found it's always found by a company that that charges you for their software.

I find the lack of logic in this post astounding. To find threats, they must investigate them

Hop on Kaspersky's blog sometime: www.securelist.com

They often reverse engineer them to patch them for their customers e.g. look up their Flashfake posts.
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5/28/12 at 5:25pm
Relevant post:

https://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questions_and_Answers
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post #17 of 38
5/28/12 at 7:00pm
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Why shouldn't they? We have a lot of interest world wide... We don't exist in a bubble. Anyway, it likely wasn't us since we already spy on Iran and we're allied with Israel

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post #18 of 38
5/28/12 at 7:03pm
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“Whoever created it was careful to mess up the compilation dates in every single module,” Gostev said. “The modules appear to have been compiled in 1994 and 1995, but they’re using code that was only released in 2010.”

That's what gives rise to the 2010 guess at the date of release.

And don't be so cynical about it being found by an AV maker, these guys are PAID to go hunting for this kind of stuff, so they can put detection routines to find it in their software. If they didn't hunt out these threats, we'd all be complaining about them not being able to stop it.
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5/28/12 at 7:46pm
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I find it a bit suspicious that every time a major threat in computer security is found it's always found by a company that that charges you for their software.

This.
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5/28/12 at 8:01pm
Made me go and read about STUXNET again.

Very interesting.
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