Microsoft Explains How Flame Malware Exploited Windows Update to Deliver Malicious Code to Iran
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Microsoft Explains How Flame Malware Exploited Windows Update to Deliver Malicious Code to Iran

17 April, 2026.Technology and Science.1 sources

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Sometime around 2010, sophisticated malware known as Flame hijacked the mechanism that Microsoft used to distribute updates to millions of Windows computers around the world

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