From a military Force Protection perspective this is as bad as it gets.  If you’re military is about to start hostilities with a middle-eastern country the absolute last thing you want to worry about is the security of your (secure) communications.  This piece of Malware is “new and interesting”.  Those are words crusty old generals do not want to hear from their Cyber-threat Analysts, nor are they excited to hear that it has been in systems since March of 2011. Now where did I put my SMART Card?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223423/Sykipot_Trojan_hijacks_DoD_smart_cards?taxonomyId=17