F-Secure Explains Why It Missed Spotting Flame, Despite Having Seen It Two Years Ago

With all the attention on the Flame malware, there’s a great post over at Wired by F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hypponen, explaining why various security firms totally missed Flame (and Stuxnet and DuQu) for quite some time — despite samples having been sent all the way back to 2010. What’s refreshing (even as it’s surprising) is to see someone so forthright about this being a failure on his part: