New Flame-Style Virus Hits International Banks

[Antari]

This is terrible 8(
CYBERDiNE terrible...

I really don't like the use of an obscure font. Looks to me like a sort of tag or tracking method.

In all seriousness, this is a ticking time bomb...

Well yes it is but its still seems much preferable to actual bombs. It seems highly unlikely that cyber warfare or espionage is ever going to be nearly as bad the actual versions so I praise it. The scary thing is that it can reach more people farther away than any short of a WMD and does not require the inferstructure that those do. This maans people realize they could easily be affected by it, but its outcome is still does not include anyone dying.

The other problem is that you don't have to declare war to go into an all out cyber war. The national and international laws of war officially need to catch up to technology in a way they haven't since the end of World War I. This is going to get much worse before it gets better.

Well I'm glad someone realizes the progression that will take place. We are barely seeing what is possible. Besides which, discovered virii are failures. We'll never hear about the successes until they do the damage they were intended to do.

 

[Von Strimmer]

Dear government, if you are making these, please stop. I'd trust Iran with nukes more than I trust you to keep these trojans under control. What you're doing doesn't improve global security, it threatens it.

I agree, this smacks of government monitoring.

Blatant guessing: I would say set up by US government to observe spending patterns on terrorism related expenditure. Sounds too well done to be home style programming.

 

[Robert Ewing]

The middle-east must be a proving ground for virus's or something, they always start there these days D:

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

This is terrible 8(
CYBERDiNE terrible...

I really don't like the use of an obscure font. Looks to me like a sort of tag or tracking method.

In all seriousness, this is a ticking time bomb...

Well yes it is but its still seems much preferable to actual bombs. It seems highly unlikely that cyber warfare or espionage is ever going to be nearly as bad the actual versions so I praise it. The scary thing is that it can reach more people farther away than any short of a WMD and does not require the inferstructure that those do. This maans people realize they could easily be affected by it, but its outcome is still does not include anyone dying.

The other problem is that you don't have to declare war to go into an all out cyber war. The national and international laws of war officially need to catch up to technology in a way they haven't since the end of World War I. This is going to get much worse before it gets better.

Well I'm glad someone realizes the progression that will take place. We are barely seeing what is possible. Besides which, discovered virii are failures. We'll never hear about the successes until they do the damage they were intended to do.

Yep. And if you think about it, the guy who said this would never kill anyone was wrong. If whoever is doing this (my money is on my own government, the bastards) is willing to interfere with banking infrastructure, it's not a huge leap from that to mess with transportation, power, or even medical systems. I mean, you can destroy an economy with this Gauss virus or something like it, and that would indirectly kill people. But shutting off the power to a major city, or screwing with the computers needed to keep a major hospital going? Thousands will die, if not more. We're on the verge of something terrifying.

 

[TheBelgianGuy]

Dear government, if you are making these, please stop. I'd trust Iran with nukes more than I trust you to keep these trojans under control. What you're doing doesn't improve global security, it threatens it.

I agree, this smacks of government monitoring.

Blatant guessing: I would say set up by US government to observe spending patterns on terrorism related expenditure. Sounds too well done to be home style programming.

More likely a US - Israeli joint operation, then. Israel has already launched a few viruses of its own to Iran and Lebanon.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-hints-it-may-be-behind-flame-supervirus-targeting-iran-7800935.html

 

[Sporky111]

Well I had to go check to see if I had Palida Narrow in my fonts. Luckily, not.