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Subject: [ISN] Iranian CERT Takes Center Stage With Flame
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2012-05-31 9:19:48
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1205310419180.13459 () infosecnews ! org
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By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
May 30, 2012
Mostly overshadowed by this week's discovery of Flame, the massive
cyberespionage toolkit, was how Iran's Computer Emergency Response Team
(CERT) took an unprecedented lead role in disseminating information on
the infection worldwide and released a removal tool.
For the most part, the organization has kept a low global profile. But
the Iranian CERT's reaching out to security vendors with information it
had on the Flame malware kit came as surprise to many, and appears to
reflect a shift in how the CERT publicly handles targeted attacks and
other cyberthreats.
"Iran's CERT seems to be more engaged with the rest of the world than
the Iranian government," says Jeffrey Carr, CEO of Taia Global. "Like
you'd expect from a CERT, actually."
The Iran National CERT, also known as MAHER, contacted various antivirus
vendors with information on Flake -- malware it had been analyzing for
months. A member of the CERT, who declined to discuss details of the
effect of the attack on Iranian organizations, said in an email response
that the CERT had sent AV vendors samples of Flame to alert them and to
"help in solving a cyber threat."
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