This year’s major malware trend will be the appearance of more Stuxnet and Flame-style ‘cyber weapons’, internet security firm AVG’s CTO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, has revealed to Computing. “Stuxnet and Flame have already happened, and have shown that this powerful malware can become accessible to others, and we’re starting to see people increasingly utilising this sophisticated malware that is sponsored by governments,” Ben-Itzhak told Computing at the company’s threat labs in Brno, Czech Republic.