School Corner

Eugene Kaspersky keeps smiling and joking.speaks of worms like fried potatoes.His cheerful attitude is not virtual but contains an apocalyptic message.Cyber apocalyptic.

The director and cofounder of the famous Russian company that bears his name still has not recovered from the discovery of Flame superspy, the virus that hit computers in many Middle Eastern countries, primarily Iran (189)."Believe me,I have much fear and concern which can lead to cyber warfare. I hope you will act before it's too late, "says Kaspersky to ELMUNDO.ES at the University of Tel Aviv where he has been one of the stars of a conference on cyberspace.

The expectation created by Kaspersky is clearly not due to your mood or the fact of being a man-marking.The reason is 20 MB."It seems that this conference has organized a good advertising promotion"he jokes, referring to hunting ciberesp a considered more sophisticated than ever.

Last April, Kaspersky Lab began to investigate reports of alleged sabotage Iranian oil sector.?Your company investigated, among other reasons, was accused by Iran of running this through its cyber antivirus system.

Flame was installed five years ago where he wanted.The long flame burned every possible defense and remained silent while documenting everything that interested him about the affected computer.He collected information, recorded conversations, varied set of data, obtained phone numbers, addresses, etc ...not destroyed as Stuxnet virus (which hit Iran's Natanz nuclear plant) but spying.Therefore, perhaps more dangerous and difficult to detect.?Big and fast.And as good spy, invisible.

The Flame malware became such a curse to 189 computers from Iran,Syria 30,98 of the Palestinian National Authority and Israel,32 from Sudan or Egypt 5.

Kaspersky's research significantly expanded contact the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), specialized agency of the United Nations.As happens when fate takes you to a distant place in search of someone and eventually fall in love with another person, research Flame encountered when looking for another virus (Wiper).

"I will not reveal any names of my men who have followed this research. Tanpoco answer who is behind this virus because our company only deals with technical information and not to decipher the identity of the aggressors," Kaspersky told reporters specified meat and bone and virtual experts.

"When we saw Flame for the first time,we were very afraid because we quickly realized it was a very good project, complex and serious. estimate that it took to create less than $ 100 million"worth.What for?"For to pay engineers, experts, analysts, technicians, coffee makers., Etc", he replies, laughing.

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In its day, Iran denounced Israel and the U.S. to be the parents of Stuxnet to sabotage its nuclear program and now suggest that they are also responsible for Flame.Kaspersky is asked in the press conference:"While in Israel, this country is part of the solution or the problem".After a few seconds of silence, he answers with a smile that causes overwhelming laughter: "Thanks."

Everyone who talks to the Russian expert born 47 years ago, concluded that man has only a fraction of what you know.

Spain has "high-level hackers"and remember that Spanish is the second most popular language in cyber crime behind China and ahead of Russia.

He is convinced that "Flame is an example that cyber weapon is very dangerous and can do much damage. I do not call cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare but. Not know where and when the next attack and if you do not act soon, things will get worse . Today countries do not have sufficient defenses. "

Kaspersky alert "to the world we know unless countries unite against this danger".And compared to the movie 'Die Hard 4' in which Bruce Willis and a young hacker to stop fighting a sophisticated terrorist attack that neutralizes basic civil infrastructure causing death and chaos.

"I saw 15 minutes of the film. I stopped to take a whiskey and smoking a cigarette. After 15 minutes of film, and another whiskey. I started to insult who made the film: Do not you understand that you are giving bad ideas" , reports Kaspersky.Flame may have fueled the cyber Pandora's Box.