Kaspersky: What exactly is Flame?

[Ink]

Kaspersky Report - Link

How sophisticated is Flame?

First of all, Flame is a huge package of modules comprising almost 20 MB in size when fully deployed. Because of this, it is an extremely difficult piece of malware to analyze. The reason why Flame is so big is because it includes many different libraries, such as for compression (zlib, libbz2, ppmd) and database manipulation (sqlite3), together with a Lua virtual machine.

 

[pcjunklist]

If the International Telecommunication Union hadn't stepped in we would still be able to read Ahmadinejad's racy e-mails to Kim Kardashian.

 

[malbky]

Seems like malwarecoders are fast evolving. I really dont know how snall AV companies who do not have the resources and experts to decode such complex malware compete with the larger ones. May be we will see some mergers.

 

[ranget]

@ malbky

i don't think this a normal malware coder behind it
i think it maybe some political party behind it that what i think

normal day to day hacker are more interested in money and hacking the avarage user that hacking gov