*"Media Suffix" and "Newsforyou." So far that's the closest thing these complex spy entities have had to a public face.
*On the loose and in the wild since 2005. What *else* were they working on all this time? And how come nobody has ever bragged in eight long years? Besides the President, I mean.
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"The newly discovered version 0.5 also displays similarities to Flame in the way the attackers went about camouflaging the command-and-control servers used to send updates to infected machines. The earlier Stuxnet was programmed to connect to servers with four different domain names, each disguised as hosting a website for a nonexistent advertising agency called Media Suffix. The sites included smartclick.org, best-advertising.net, internetadvertising4u.com, and ad-marketing.net. Ominously, their tagline, according to archived pages of the now defunct sites, read: "Deliver what the mind can dream."
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"Similarly, the Flame espionage malware relied on servers that were disguised as publishing platforms running a fictitious content management application called Newsforyou. The disguises reduced the chances that the true purpose of sites would be discovered by people working at the data centers where they were hosted or by people who happened upon the sites while browsing the Internet...."
*Some web designer had to sit down and design this thing, and make it look this harmless and boring as it was wrecking Iranian nuclear weapons plants:
*"We offer clients an unparalleled range of creative answers to the vary needs of our clients." That deliberately clumsy sentence must have been a genius move to repel anybody who might actually think of hiring them.
