THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Whenever a high-ranking Iranian politician has sent or received an email in the past two years, a computer virus nicknamed Flame has most likely copied that email and secretly shipped it to an outside computer network. When a user of an infected Iranian computer typed a password, Flame stole it Continue reading
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Super-stealthy ‘Flame' computer virus spies on Iran
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Whenever a high-ranking Iranian politician has sent or received an email in the past two years, a computer virus nicknamed Flame has most likely copied that email and secretly shipped it to an outside computer network. When a user of an infected Iranian computer typed a password, Flame stole it. When the user opened a sensitive document or instant-messaged a friend or video-chatted with a colleague, Flame nabbed that, too Continue reading