The webσελίδα Intercept by Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher posted more information από τα αρχεία που διέρρευσε ο Edward Snowden από την αμερικάνικη Εθνική Υπηρεσία Ασφάλειας (NSA). Η δημοσίευση παρουσιάζει τις τεχνολογίες που επιτρέπουν στην αμερικάνικη υπηρεσία πληροφοριών να κάνει αυτοματοποιημένα exploit σε ευπάθειες δικτύων και συστημάτων βιομηχανίας.
It turns out that NSA has automated procedures that allow it to plant malware on millions of computers around the world. Documents provided by Snowden show that the UK GCHQ has played an important role in the development of these systems.
NSA tactics are similar to those used by cyber criminals. In some cases, they had created a fake Facebook server and used the social networking site to distribute malicious software. Of course, this whole process was done to steal data from infected computers.
The Secret Service has also conducted several spam campaigns to distribute malware capable of recording audio and taking photos through its camera. computer.
In 2004, they had about 100-150 malware. However, after creating the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) department and recruiting hackers, new tools were developed. So the number of malware today reaches tens of thousands.
Since it is impossible to manage malware automatically, NSA has developed a software called TURBINE. This system is capable of actively managing malware that allows the organization to exploit on an industrial scale.
TURBINE is said to be part of a wider surveillance initiative that the NSA has dubbed "Owning the Net" or in free translation "making the net our own." And if you are wondering how much money is being spent on these projects, the NSA asked for $ 67.600.000 million last year.
There is a wide range of malicious tools used by the NSA. For example, UNITEDRAKE is used to gain full control over the device.
UNITEDRAKE is a series of plug-ins, each designed for a specific purpose.
CAPTIVATEDAUDIENCE is for recording conversations through the computer microphone, GUMFISH is for exploiting the camera, FOGGYBOTTOM for leaking data on the Internet (like history browsing and passwords), and Grok which copies and stores everything the victim types on their keyboard.
And if you think encryption tools can protect you from such malicious software, you are wrong. All of the above tools are designed to circumvent these protections as the information they collect has not been able to be encrypted.
All of the Edward Snowden records that prove the above are available at Intercept.
