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Victims? More like SCAPEGOATS
The NSA quietly commandeered a botnet targeting US Defence agencies to attack other victims including Chinese and Vietnamese dissidents, Snowden documents reveal.
The allegation is among the latest in a cache of revelations dropped by Der Spiegel that revealed more about the spy agency.
The "Boxingrumble" botnet was detected targeting the Defence Department's Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router Network prompting NSA bods to redirect the attack to a server operated by the Tailored Access Operations unit.
A DNS spoofing attack tricked the botnet into treating the spies as trusted command and control agents. The NSA then used the bot's hooks into other victims to foist its own custom malware.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Quantum
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=cyberwar
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=NSA
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=TAO
The NSA quietly commandeered a botnet targeting US Defence agencies to attack other victims including Chinese and Vietnamese dissidents, Snowden documents reveal.
The allegation is among the latest in a cache of revelations dropped by Der Spiegel that revealed more about the spy agency.
The "Boxingrumble" botnet was detected targeting the Defence Department's Nonsecure Internet Protocol Router Network prompting NSA bods to redirect the attack to a server operated by the Tailored Access Operations unit.
A DNS spoofing attack tricked the botnet into treating the spies as trusted command and control agents. The NSA then used the bot's hooks into other victims to foist its own custom malware.
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Quantum
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=cyberwar
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=NSA
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=TAO