{"id":926,"date":"2012-06-06T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodwin.drexel.edu\/isensor\/smho\/?p=926"},"modified":"2012-06-06T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T21:22:31","slug":"russian-malware-hunter-warns-dangerous-cyber-attack-could-be-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=926","title":{"rendered":"Russian malware hunter warns: dangerous cyber attack could be coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/shuyuanmaryho.com\/?p=926\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>The Russian malware hunter whose firm discovered the Flame virus said Wednesday there could be plenty more malicious code out there, and warned he feared a disastrous cyber attack could be coming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s quite logical that there are new cyber weapons designed, and maybe already computers infected that we don\u2019t know about,\u201d Eugene Kaspersky, founder of Kaspersky Lab, said on the fringes of a Tel Aviv University cyber security conference.<\/p>\n<p>Kaspersky Lab, one of the world\u2019s biggest producers of anti-virus software, said its experts discovered Flame during an investigation prompted by the International Telecommunication Union.<\/p>\n<p>Iran appears to have been the main target of the attack which was discovered just a month after the Islamic republic said it halted the spread of a data-deleting virus targeting computer servers in its oil sector.<\/p>\n<p>The Moscow-based firm said the virus was \u201cabout 20 times larger than Stuxnet,\u201d the worm which was discovered in June 2010 and used against Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities, with Israel widely suspected of involvement.<\/p>\n<p>Observers have speculated Israel may also have been involved in Flame, but Kaspersky declined to speculate, saying its development was not necessarily limited to the most technologically advanced countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyber weapons can replicate, and there could be random victims anywhere around the globe, it doesn\u2019t matter how far you are from the conflict,\u201d he said.  \u201cIt\u2019s not cyberwar, it\u2019s cyberterrorism and I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s just the beginning of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recalled Stuxnet and a 1970 denial of service \u2014 or DOS \u2014 attack that paralysed Estonia\u2019s information technology systems, and said the next wave could be far more devastating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m afraid that it will be the end of the world as we know it,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m afraid that very soon the world will be very different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From RawStory.com: http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2012\/06\/06\/russian-malware-hunter-warns-dangerous-cyber-attack-could-be-coming\/ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian malware hunter whose firm discovered the Flame virus said Wednesday there could be plenty more malicious code out there, and warned he feared a disastrous cyber attack could be coming. \u201cIt\u2019s quite logical that there are new cyber &hellip; 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