Cybersleuths see link between Flame, Stuxnet virus

LONDON (AP) — Cybersecurity researchers said Monday that they’d found a link between the infrastructure-wrecking cyberweapon known as Stuxnet and the recently-discovered Flame virus — possibly offering a new clue about the latter’s origins.

Kaspersky Labs expert Alexander Gostev said in a blog post that his company had identified a similarity between a subset of the code used in Flame and another set of code used in an early version of Stuxnet, which is believed to have been aimed at Iran’s disputed nuclear program.