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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 12813288" data-attributes="member: 92282">A mystery computer virus discovered last month and deployed in a  massive cyberattack chiefly against Iran sought to steal designs and PDF  files from its victims, a Russian firm said.Kaspersky Lab, one  of the world's biggest producers of anti-virus software, announced last  month the discovery of the Flame virus, which it described as the  biggest and most sophisticated malware ever seen.In the latest  update on Kaspersky's analysis of the virus, released late Monday, the  firm's chief security expert, Alexander Gostev, said the malware's  creators had focussed on file formats such as PDF and AutoCAD, a  software for computer design and drawing."The attackers seem to have a high interest in AutoCAD drawings," Gostev said in a statement.The malware also "goes through PDF and text files and other documents and makes short text summaries," he added."It  also hunts for e-mails and many different kinds of other 'interesting'  (high-value) files that are specified in the malware configuration."He  confirmed that Iran was by far the biggest target with a count of 185  infections, followed by 95 in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, 32  in Sudan and 29 in Syria.The discovery of Flame immediately  sparked speculation that it had been created by US and Israeli security  services to steal information about Iran's controversial nuclear drive.Intriguingly,  Kaspersky said that hours after the existence of the virus was first  announced on May 28, "The Flame command-and-control infrastructure,  which had been operating for years, went dark."It gave no further  information over the possible perpetrators of the mystery attack,  though it identified about 80 domains that appear to belong to the Flame  infrastructure, in locations from Hong Kong to Switzerland.Kaspersky  said it had used a procedure known as sinkholing -- which allows  Internet security experts to gain control of a malicious server -- to  analyse the operation.During the sinkholing it found that on  three computers in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran the Flame versions changed,  suggesting Flame upgraded itself in the process.The New York  Times reported last week that President Barack Obama has accelerated  cyberattacks on Iran's nuclear programme in an operation codenamed  "Olympic Games" that uses a malicious code developed with Israel.<img src="http://www.google.com/hostednews/img/afp_logo.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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