The NSA does not hack only on politicians, or innocent citizens. It also makes piggybacks work for professional hackers. We call them professionals because they are hacking to make money. Now why the secret service hits other hackers? But why does he want to control the already hacked machines and use them for their own purposes.
This is one of the amazing facts that emerged from Edward Snowden's latest leaks.
The big reveal in today's story Intercept είναι ότι η NSA, τον Ιούλιο του 2010, είχε φτιάξει το σύστημα TURBINE που είχε σχεδιαστεί για να αναβαθμίσει εξελιγμένες λειτουργίες hacking υπολογιστών, όπως αναφέραμε και σε προηγούμενη δημοσίευση. Η NSA έχει μολυνθεί από 85.000 έως και 100.000 συστήματα με κακόβουλα “εμφυτεύματα”, σύμφωνα με τις προηγούμενες ιστορίες του Snowden . Με τη νέα πλατφόρμα εντολών και control TURBINE of the NSA, the service may well increase and manage "millions of implants" at once.
The TURBINE platform achieves “the creation of a system that automatically controls group implants rather than individually”.
This is precisely the solution that hackers use to massively control many systems. When vulnerable Windows appeared ten years ago, hackers could infect very easily. It was difficult to control them massively.
So black hat developers invented the "bot" - a type of malware that silently exists in a hacker-controlled IRC chat room. Infected systems are connected in the same chat room. From there, the hacker can issue bulk commands to all hacked computers at once, or to a subset of them.
Large modern botnets can contain 2 million hacked machines, and are used for click fraud, denial of service attacks, theft code accesss , mining bitcoin and other things .
It is logical that the NSA would like to take advantage of such a solution. Interestingly, the NSA did not simply create its own botnet. Since August 2007, he has been creating the QUANTUMBOT program, which is dedicated to taking over the management and control systems of the existing and inactive bots. A top-secret slide describes the program as "highly successful" with "over 140.000 bots"
It is not clear what the NSA is doing with the 140.000 accidentally infected machines. Hackers are fighting for control of botnets all the time, because a good botnet can make money. But the NSA has money. Computer security researcher Nicholas Weaver theorizes that the service could use bots as cover - if you find your computer blocked by a known botnet hacker, you will not suspect that the most advanced information service in the world is behind it. At least, not until now.
The publication was made by Wired
