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Computer systems in Iran and elsewhere have been infected with a sophisticated piece of Malware of unknown origin, dubbed Flame or Flamer. The malware appears to have been operating since 2007 and was first detected in last April on computers belonging to the Iranian Oil Ministry and the Iranian National Oil Co. Flame can monitor keystrokes, record audio and screen shots, capture mobile data, steal passwords, intercept network traffic, and communicate wirelessly via a Bluetooth signal. Flame is 20 megabytes in size with 20 different plug-ins that can be swapped in and out for different functionality. According to the anti-virus firm that discovered the maleware (Kaspersky Lab), Flame is 20 times more complex than Stuxnet.
