Flame Malware Code Traced to Stuxnet

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Flame Malware Code Traced to Stuxnet –Researchers find a link between the two different pieces of malware, suggesting that the U.S. government may be behind both 11 Jun 2012Did the U.S. government commission the recently discovered Flame malware? According to new research, the developers of the Stuxnet and Flame malware families crossed paths–swapping source code at least once–which suggests that the U.S. government didn’t just commission Stuxnet, but Flame as well. “In 2009, part of the code from the Flame platform was used in Stuxnet,” said Alex Gostev, the chief malware researcher at Kaspersky Lab, Monday in a blog post. “We believe that source code was used, rather than complete binary modules,” he said, which suggests some degree of collaboration or crossover.

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