“Flame virus amateurish”
“Flame virus amateurish” – Globes.
GreenSQL CTO David Maman believes that the virus, which has raised a media buzz, was merely another standard attack.
Contradicting assessments by foreign IT security experts, GreenSQLCTO and IT security expert David Maman believes that the Flame virus discovered in Iran and elsewhere was just another example of a fairly simple cyber weapon in the global cyber war.
“The media buzz about the tool is just buzz,” Maman told “Globes”. He believe that there is no reason to be surprised about the virus’s discovery. “It looks a little amateurish, like many other cyber weapons. It is fairly simple. There are dozens like it on the web. The same people and private companies can buy them and do what they want with them.”
In contrast to foreign IT security experts, Maman believes that the idea that a government or major defense agency created Flame is not based on the virus’s actual structure. “I really do not agree with the assessment by Kaspersky Lab. Such a cyber weapon can be developed by any other group, which could have used it for corporate, or even political, espionage, not necessarily for defense,” he says.
Kaspersky Lab says that the cyber weapon mostly attacked in Iran, the Palestinian Authority, and Israel.
Maman: “Kaspersky only reports what it sees. There could definitely be other versions of the cyber weapon directed at other target countries.”
Maman adds that the fact that Kaspersky discovered the cyber weapon should raises suspicions among international cyber experts. “How come no American antivirus company, whose research departments are many times more advanced than Kaspersky’s, did not discover these Trojan horses. Why did only Russian and Belorussian companies discover them?” he asks.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news – www.globes-online.com – on May 29, 2012
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WarSclerotic 
May 29, 2012 at 6:42 PM
No really serious antivirus american company was suposed to discover this trojan and if Maman doesnt get it , he must stop imediatelly to write for Globes. Regarding how he is downplaying the trojan complexity, he can cool himself out because this software is outhere for more than four years and its no need to disinform now about it.
May 30, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Who first publicly announced Stuxnet? Not Israel. Not the U.S. Not Langer. And certainly not Pixar. It came, in June 2010, from VirusBlokAda in Belarus, like its neighbor Russia, a backwater without the chops to report anything.