Cyber weapon targeting Iran's oil, nuclear industries
Kaspersky says he thinks the two teams worked independently but probably collaborated from time to time, putting forth a theory that Stuxnet was used for the kind of sabotage employed against Iran's nuclear computer infrastructure while Flame, on the other hand, was a general cyber-espionage tool that developers didn't want to mix.
"We think that these teams are different, two different teams working with each other, helping each other at different stages," said Vitaly Kamluk, Kaspersky's chief malware expert.
Both cyber-weapons have been employed against the Islamic republic, reports said. Iran's military said in May that the country's all-important oil industry was affected for a short time by the Flame virus, which has unprecedented capabilities to grab data and eavesdrop on computers. While the extent of the damage isn't known, Iran had to cut the Internet ties to its main oil export terminal, likely to try to contain the virus
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