A LINK: Cybersecurity researchers say they have found a link between the infrastructure-wrecking cyberweapon known as Stuxnet and the recently discovered Flame virus.
WHAT THAT MEANS: That finding could offer a new clue about the latter’s origins.
ABOUT FLAME: The debate over the potency of Flame continues. The oversize virus is a kind of surveillance Swiss army knife, capable of turning on a computer’s microphones, taking screenshots of its monitor, and — in one of its more novel attacks — sucking data from unsecured, Bluetooth-enabled cellphones left nearby.
