The US National Security Agency (NSA) has installed surveillance software on nearly 100.000 computers around the world that allow it to conduct surveillance on these devices and to provide them with a digital route to carry out cyber attacks, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The NSA has planted software in systems to manage to have access in the networks they are connected to, but also to be able to use them through an even more secret technology and when they are not connected to the internet. Do you still feel safe?
The Times, published by US officials, computer experts, and leaked documents from Edward Snowden.
The Times has said that this secret technology is used by 2008 and is backed by disguised radio channels that are transmitted by tiny circuits and USB cards hidden secretly on the computers of the victims.
"RF technology has helped solve one of the biggest problems facing US intelligence services for many years: to have access to computers of their adversaries, or even some Americans, which they could not breach with hacking methods," the newspaper says. "In most cases, the RF hardware must be physically introduced by a spy, or a manufacturer, or the unsuspecting user himself."
Frequent program objectives, codenamed Quantum, include units of the Chinese military, which Washington has accused of carrying out cyberattacks against US military and industrial targets, the Times reported and relayed the Reuters.
The newspaper also reported that the program had managed to implant surveillance software on Russian military networks as well as on systems used by Mexican police, drug cartels, the European Union and their allies such as Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan .
The Times continues, saying there is no evidence that the NSA had used similar software or technology with radio waves across the United States.
