Flame on: complex LUA and C++ cyber weapon fired at Israel, Iran and Syria

A cyber weapon grade piece of malware, some twenty times the size of Stuxnet, has apparently been fired at a number of countries in the Middle East. This highly complex piece of code which takes screenshots of any open 'programs of interest' such as email or IM, records audio and sends large volumes of compressed sensitive data back to base, was uncovered thanks to research from Kaspersky Lab and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Described as being far more functional and far more complex than previous nation-state sponsored attacks such as Stuxnet, Flame has been found to be actively deployed within Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria so far.