Flame virus: son of Stuxnet uncovered in Middle East

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Complex malware 'developed by a government agency' said to be undetectable by anti-virus and anti-malware programmes

New malware designed to spy on people, steal classified information and cause mass deletion of data has been uncovered by a number of anti-virus software vendors and security researchers. Code-n...

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