Last week, reports of a new malware named Gauss emerged, a complex threat that has attracted a lot of media attention due to its links to Stuxnet and Flame and its geographical distribution.  Since ESET has added detection for this threat, we are seeing geographical distribution of detection reports similar to those detailed by Kaspersky.

Aleksandr Matrosov looks at the internal architecture of Win32/Flamer’s mssecmgr.ocx module.

Despite the confusion and the stampede to claim detection ownership, W32/Flamer is more than a media sensation.