Leading global cybersecurity firms on Monday announced the detection of a sophisticated new type of malicious code on hundreds of computers throughout the Middle East, with particular concentration in Iran, where the code, nicknamed “Flame,” has been capturing sensitive user information such as screenshots, emails, documents and audio files using a computer’s microphone.Iran’s own cyber security agency on Monday released a bulletin confirming that the trojan had been detected in the country, saying that the malware could be behind recent “incidents of mass data loss.” The agency said that it had created an antivirus removal tool, which it was ready to deliver to affected machines.
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