Flame and Stuxnet malware linked, says Kaspersky

The Flame backstory keeps getting fleshed out. And the latest development is a doozy.

Researchers at security company Kaspersky Labs have discovered that portions of the Flame malware are nearly identical to parts of the famed Stuxnet worm discovered in …

Flame off! Malware makers scramble to clean infected computers

Could the writers of the Flame malware be attempting to cover their tracks?

Security software maker Symantec noticed this week that computers infected with Flame have sent out urgent commands to remove all traces of the malware from other systems.…

Stuxnet may have up to 4 malware siblings made on the same platform

Stuxnet has been called the most sophisticated computer worm ever created. We know there are siblings to the malware which took down Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, but now Kaspersky labs is saying there may be up to four other worms in …

‘Indestructible’ botnet has infected 4.5M PCs and counting

The “TDL-4″ botnet now has more than 4.5 million infected PCs running on it and is the “most sophisticated threat” to computer security today, according to Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov.

Botnets are groups of malware-infected computers that are used …