Iran successfully combats Flame spyware

TEHRAN, May 31 (MNA) – Iranian experts have created the required anti-virus software to clean the systems infected by a newly detected virus that has been described as the most complex cyber menace to date, Ali Hakim-Javadi, the Iranian deputy minister of information and communications technology, announced on Wednesday. Reuters reported on Monday that security experts had discovered a new data-stealing spyware virus dubbed Flame that they say had lurked inside thousands of computers across the Middle East for as long as five years as part of a sophisticated cyber warfare campaign. The Associated Press also quoted the director of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization, Gholam Reza Jalali, as saying on Wednesday that Iranian experts had “found” and “defeated” the Flame virus.