Malware That Confounded The Internet World In 2012 ✦ Deluxe

It acted as a "vacuum cleaner" for data, capable of recording audio through microphones, taking screenshots, logging keystrokes, and even turning infected machines into Bluetooth beacons to steal contacts from nearby phones.

Its most shocking feat was a mathematical breakthrough that allowed it to spoof a genuine Microsoft Windows Update certificate , making it invisible to virtually all security software. Malware That Confounded the Internet World In 2012

Detected in May 2012, was hailed by researchers at Kaspersky Lab as the most complex malware ever found. While most malware is just a few dozen kilobytes, Flame was a massive 20-megabyte modular toolkit . It acted as a "vacuum cleaner" for data,