In the last couple of years, we have seen highly sophisticated malware used to sabotage the business activities of chosen targets. We have seen malware such as W32.Stuxnet designed to tamper with industrial automation systems and other destructive examples such as W32.Disstrack and W32.Flamer, which can both wiped out data and files from hard disks. […]
W32.Flamer is a sophisticated cyber espionage tool which targeted the Middle East. News of its existence hit the headlines earlier in 2012. Symantec, has performed a detailed forensic analysis of two of the command-and-control (C&C) servers used in the W32.Flamer attacks earlier this year.The servers were set up on March 25, 2012, and May 18, […]
From the very beginning of our analysis of Win32/Flamer it was clear that this was an extremely sophisticated piece of malware which we had never seen before. It implements extremely elaborate programming logic and has an intricate internal structure. At the heart of Flame’s modularity lies a carefully designed architecture allowing all its components interoperability […]
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