Flame Malware Raises Need For Open Talk On Use Of Cyberweapons

snoopy · Jun 2, 2012

June 1, 2012, 10:51AM
Flame Malware Raises Need for Open Talk on Use of Cyberweapons

The discovery of the Flame malware has raised a number of questions, some mundane, some interesting and many unanswerable at this point. But the point that's most interesting also is the one that likely will go unaddressed for the foreseeable future, and that is, the need for a serious, open discussion on the use of cyber weapons.

The Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame episodes have stirred up a giant swirl of hyperbole and speculation, both along the lines of sophistication and attribution. A piece in The New York Times today speculates that not only was the United States responsible for creating and deploying Stuxnet, but it was just one part of a comprehensive campaign by the Bush and Obama administrations to disrupt nuclear operations in Iran through the use of offensive security tools. This is something that people in the security community have been talking about since the discovery of Stuxnet, when researchers pointed the finger at the U.S., or possibly Israel, for the attack. So the idea that one of Iran's stated enemies would have launched Stuxnet against that country isn't much of a stretch.

"It appears to be the first time the United States has repeatedly used cyberweapons to cripple another country’s infrastructure, achieving, with computer code, what until then could be accomplished only by bombing a country or sending in agents to plant explosives," David E. Sanger wrote in the Times piece.
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https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/flame-malware-raises-need-open-talk-use-cyberweapons-060112

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