Flame, a notorious piece of malware discovered in late May to be infecting and stealing information from hundreds of computers in the Middle East and Europe, shares something in common with the equally infamous Stuxnet malware that reportedly damaged an Iranian nuclear facility in 2010: The two types of malware contain some of the same source code that allowed them to be installed in the first place, according to a new analysis posted online by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs revealed on Monday.Specifically, what Kaspersky Labs researchers uncovered was that an earlier version of Flame, named “Tocy.a” and first detected in October 2010, is highly similar to a portable executable file found inside Stuxnet, called “Resource 207.”
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