SAN FRANCISCO: The security company that has discovered some of the most sophisticated spying software unearthed to date says it found a related program, dubbed miniFlame, which can carry out more precise attacks on targets in the Middle East.
While the original Flame virus swept in data from perhaps 5,000 computers, largely in Iran and Sudan, the new miniFlame struck only about 50 “high-value” machines, according to Kaspersky Lab research published on Monday.
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