The front pages have been dominated for more than a year by photos of young Syrian rebel fighters, armed and proud, battling an increasingly isolated Syrian military. But amid the shooting, the atrocities and the bombings, there is a parallel war — a sophisticated cyber insurgency
Flame worm shares same scripting tech as Angry Birds
The exceptionally complex Flame malware, this week found on numerous systems across the Middle East and beyond, is likely to take months if not years to analyse. Early indications suggest that Flame is a cyber-espionage toolkit that has penetrated computers primarily, but not exclusively, in Iran and Israel.