Flame named a cryptographic marvel; Infected PCs commit suicide

[Rootk]

Uber-malware Flame is the most complex tool for cyber espionage discovered in the wild to-date, expert cryptographers have said, the first example of an MD5 collision attack being used in earnest. “Flame uses a yet unknown MD5 chosen-prefix collision attack” renowned experts Marc Stevens and B.M.M. de Weger announced in a security discussion group this week, having been forced to create a custom tool specifically in the hope of digging through the malware’s secrets. Meanwhile, Symantec spotted what appeared to be a desperate suicide instruction sent out to a number of compromised computers.

Full article: http://www.slashgear.com/flame-named-a-cryptographic-marvel-infected-pcs-commit-suicide-08232930/

[Bugbatter]

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