Iran has admitted that a data-mining virus dubbed 'Flame' had caused substantial damage and massive amounts of data had been lost in what may be most destructive cyber attack on the nation.



Tehran's reaction came a day after Russia-based Internet security company Kaspersky Lab uncovered the virus 'Flame' which it said attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in West Asia and may have been designed to collect and delete sensitive information.


New York Times reported that the computers of high-ranking Iranian officials appear to have been penetrated in what it said may be the most destructive cyberattack on Iran.