Wednesday, 25 October 2017

How an antivirus program could accidentally smuggle government secrets into Russia

For weeks, one of the world’s top security firms has been dogged by reports of government espionage. According to a string of reports, Kaspersky Lab’s antivirus software was used as part of a sophisticated effort by Russian intelligence to steal classified NSA documents. The software had flagged classified materials brought home by a luckless NSA contractor, and used the antivirus system to transmit the materials back to Kaspersky’s headquarters in Moscow. When Israeli agents broke into Kaspersky’s network for a separate operation in 2015, they found a hidden cache of NSA tools, and tipped off the US government that something was wrong. Was a popular antivirus program being used to steal government secrets?

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https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/25/16545532/kaspersky-lab-russian-hacking-antivirus-telemetry-nsa

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http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/10/how-antivirus-program-could.html

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