A newly discovered malicious code nicknamed “Flame,” found on computers across the Middle East and in Europe, set off the alarm bells of some cybersecurity firms, media outlets and the government of Iran this week. But it may not be as nasty as initial reports indicated, and the hype surrounding Flame may be partially the result of a U.N. agency, the International Telecommunications Union.The malware’s behavior certainly seems alarming: Flame is capable of capturing and transmitting such sensitive user information from infected computers including emails, keystrokes, even audio by covertly activating selected machines’ built in microphones.
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