[ShadowAce]

[kentramsay]

This virus attacks Windows computers. No evidence of attacking Apple computers. The site, SecurityAffairs, describes the announcement from the Iranian computer task force, MAHER, and says,

“The specialists of the center are sure that the malware is a new cyber weapondue its complexity level and propagation methods, they don’t exclude that recent mass data loss in Iran could be related to the attack of the malware.  The malware seems target mainly windows platform running Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and the isolated istances of the agents are capable of password and data stealing, sniffing network traffic, taking screenshots, recording audio conversations, intercepting the keyboard, and so on.  All the collected data could be sent to the to Flame’s command-and-control servers. Curious the usage of Bluetooth protocol, once the victim has the functionality turned on, Flame is able to collect information about discoverable devices nearby.

It’s not yet clear with is the entry point for Flame malware, the principal suspects address the exploit of a Microsoft “

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Another report was more specific than the middle east: Iran. I'm guessing the boys in the Massad know something about this.

[GOPJ]

There is however a more sinister side effect that may come as a result of the discovery of Flamer. Marcus stressed that one thing malware writers do exceptionally well is that they learn from other malware writers. "We can expect in the future for someone to learn from Flamer and use it in a future malware variant," Marcus said.

We can assume our phone conversations are no longer private - our computers can 'listen in' on the room? Sounds like bad science fiction.