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Iranian officials are claiming that the U.S. and its allies Israel and Britain are attacking the country's nuclear facilities with sophisticated cyberweapons. And here you were, thinking that stuxnet and its ilk were dead and gone.

There's all kinds of dangerous malware out there these days between Stuxnet, the stuff packed into North Korean video games and who knows what else. One particularly dangerous and efficient example, Flame, is actually helping solve the problem, kind of. Security researches have actually caught instances of Flame deleting itself.

In 2010, the Stuxnet worm was first discovered in the wild. After being picked apart by security experts, it was widely believed to be a cyberweapon created by some government agency. The U.S. and Israel were always prime suspects, but a new report this morning in The New York Times confirms those suspicions and even shows the high level of involvement of President Obama in this country's clandestine cyberwar.