Antone Gonsalves at CSOonline covered this in-depth on October 16, 2012. "Newly discovered spying malware designed to steal data from infected systems was likely built from the same cyber-weaponry factory that produced two other notorious cyberespionage software Flame and Gauss, a security vendor says. Kaspersky Lab released a technical paper Monday outlining the discovery of the malware the vendor has dubbed "miniFlame." While capable of working with Flame and Gauss, miniFlame is a "small, fully functional espionage module designed for data theft and direct access to infected systems," Kaspersky said. Kaspersky reported the existence of Flame in May and a month later discovered Gauss. A nation-state is believed to have developed both highly sophisticated malware for cyberespionage and cybersabotage operations in the Middle East. MiniFlame was discovered during an analysis of the Flame command and control servers, a study initiated by the International Telecommunication Union and conducted by Kaspersky. While capable of operating by itself, miniFlame was downloaded in computers already infected with Flame and Gauss." More at CSOonline
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