The malware, dubbed "Flame" after one of the dozens of modules available for it, immediately evoked memories of Stuxnet, another piece of advanced malware that disabled uranium centrifuges in Iranian nuclear plants. As sophisticated as Stuxnet and a related piece of espionage software known as Duqu are, the latest piece of malware is probably orders of magnitude more sophisticated. When fully installed, its size is a whopping 20MB, and it also uses SQLite databases and dynamically generated code that uses the Lua programming language. Such characteristics suggest the malware, which Kaspersky estimates has been found on about 1,000 computer systems so far, could only have been written by a large team of highly skilled software engineers.
anybody wanna bet that there's still plenty more malware hidding in iran's computers doing all sorts of mean and nasty things to their systems? this is looking less like sabatoge for a particular program (e.g. the nuclear one) and more like a dedicated systems war campaign against the gov't of iran.
