Snowden's documents confirm that hacking tools belong to the NSA

The documents leaked by Edward Snowden seem to confirm that the εργαλεία που διέρρευσαν νωρίτερα αυτή την εβδομάδα ανήκουν στην Εθνική Υπηρεσία Ασφαλείας (NSA) των ΗΠΑ.

The "Shadow Brokers" team published a series of malware and the tools used by a hacking team known as the "Equation Group." Shadow Brokers describes malicious software as "cyber weapons" used by the NSA to conduct surveillance operations.NSA Snowden

On the other hand Intercept, which still has copies of documents leaked by Edward Snowden, reported on Friday that there are indications linking hacking tools with the NSA.

One of the top secret slides used by πληροφοριών NSA και παρουσιάζουν πως μπορεί να χρησιμοποιήσει κάποιος ένα από τα κακόβουλα προγράμματα «όπλα» που διέρρευσαν χρησιμοποιεί μια σειρά από 16 χαρακτήρες. Ο κωδικός “ace02468bdf13579,” βρέθηκε και στα προγράμματα που διέρρευσαν. Η συγκεκριμένη εφαρμογή ονομάζεται SECONDDATE, και περιγράφεται σαν ένα εργαλείο “που είναι σχεδιασμένο να υποκλέπτει web and direct the target computers' browsers to an NSA web server."

Αυτό που παραμένει ακόμη άγνωστο είναι το πώς κατάφεραν οι Shadow Brokers να ανακαλύψουν τον server με το κακόβουλο λογισμικό. Τα εργαλεία είναι εξαιρετικά αποτελεσματικά, και τα εξειδικευμένα έχουν σχεδιαστεί για να διεισδύουν σε μερικά από τα καλύτερα firewalls και εξοπλισμό δικτύωσης στον κόσμο.

Cisco and Fortinet, both of whom have confirmed that their products are affected by malware, have already begun repairing their devices and technology.

As we mentioned in a previous publication, Snowden, had stated on Twitter that the “ of an NSA malware server is no simple matter.”

Snowden has pretty much suggested that Russia, where he currently lives in exile, may have been behind the leak.

"This leak looks like someone is sending a message and that escalating the game could get dirty pretty quickly."

It seems we are already there.

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