It acted as a "vacuum cleaner" for data, capable of recording audio through microphones, taking screenshots, logging keystrokes, and even turning infected machines into Bluetooth beacons to steal contacts from nearby phones.
If Flame was a scalpel for spying, (or Disttrack) was a sledgehammer designed for destruction. In August 2012, it targeted the world’s largest oil producer, Saudi Aramco . Malware That Confounded the Internet World In 2012
Detected in May 2012, was hailed by researchers at Kaspersky Lab as the most complex malware ever found. While most malware is just a few dozen kilobytes, Flame was a massive 20-megabyte modular toolkit . It acted as a "vacuum cleaner" for data,