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If your organization develops intellectual property that would be valuable to other countries to copy, you are a target and probably have already been compromised.
In its threat report for the first half of 2012, F-Secure summarized the pieces of the Flame malware, which according to some researchers claimed the title of the most complex ever. Earlier this year, The Washington Post cited anonymous sources stating that the malware was linked to a joint effort by the United States and Israel, though American and Israeli officials officially declined to comment. While arms races in the physical world have centered on countries letting their rivals know about their capabilities for the sake of deterrence, the world has not yet reached this stage when it comes to cyber-attacks, wrote Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at F-Secure.
"Most likely, yes (we are in an arms race)," he told SecurityWeek. "But it's happening behind closed doors in classified programs, so we don't know much about it – so far. Only [the] USA has confessed doing this. But we must assume most technically advanced nations are stockpiling cyber arms."
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http://www.securityweek.com/todays-cyber-war-cold-war-some-say
