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‘miniFlame’ Malware Spreading Through Middle East – Redmondmag.com

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IEEE Spectrum

'miniFlame' Malware Spreading Through Middle East
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A new Flame malware variant that's designed to steal personal data from a targeted machine was identified by security firm Kaspersky Labs this week. "The SPE malware, which we call 'miniFlame,' is a small, fully functional cyber-espionage malware …
Cybersecurity News Roundup: 'miniFlame' Malware; Android Spyware; Huawei …CIO (blog)
Global Cyber-Warfare Tactics: New Flame-linked Malware used in “Cyber …Center for Research on Globalization
This Week in Cybercrime: Could Maryland Voter Registration Vulnerability …IEEE Spectrum
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) –Midsize Insider
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Meet Flame Espionage Malware Cousin: MiniFlame – InformationWeek

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Meet Flame Espionage Malware Cousin: MiniFlame
InformationWeek
Ongoing teardowns of the Flame malware and its underlying components have yielded a surprising discovery: a new piece of malware. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab said that what they previously suspected was an attack module for the Flame …
State-Sponsored Malware 'Flame' Has Smaller, More Devious CousinWired
Kaspersky discovers MiniFlame cyber espionage malware directly linked to …InfoWorld
Precision Espionage miniFlame Malware Tied to Flame, GaussThreatpost (blog)
eSecurity Planet –RT –VentureBeat
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Flame’s vicious sibling miniFlame malware, a cyber-espionage ‘surgical attack tool’

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The cyber-espionage malware Flame has a vicious little sibling called miniFlame, according to a Kaspersky Lab report released today. This small, “high-precision, surgical attack tool” can operate as a standalone, without the Flame main modules, or as a component controlled by Flame or the espionage program Gauss. Read more
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