If this was such a sophisticated piece of malware, it could have just encrypted 
everything prior to sending it out: to a scanner it would just look like binary 
gibberish.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 7:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Flame bait...

So, this is getting a lot of hype right now:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227524/Researchers_identify_Stuxnet_like_malware_called_Flame_

And a thought just occurred to me...

A lot of gateways that scan things (email, web, etc. - and a lot of AV programs 
on end points, too) are configured to ignore chunks of data over a megabyte or 
two...

I wonder if that has played to the advantage of this bit of malware?

Kurt


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