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Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor and whistleblower, has leaked documents that claim the US National Security Agency (NSA) and UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have actively reverse engineered security and anti-virus software to obtain intelligence, according to a report by The Intercept.
The documents obtained reportedly highlight the Russian software security firm, Kaspersky Lab, as one of the main targets, with GCHQ reverse-engineering Kaspersky's anti-virus software looking for vulnerabilities that could be subverted.
The Intercept posted an NSA document titled "Project Camberdada" that lists at least 23 antivirus and security firms that were in that spy agency's sights -- none of the companies were of U.K. or U.S. origin, but there was more than one firm from the country in which Snowden now calls home.
Earlier this month, Eugene Kaspersky said in a blog post that his firm had recently discovered an advanced attack on its software. The security mogul said that his company was quite confident that there was a nation state behind the attack, but made it clear that he did not wish to attribute it.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Cyberespionage
Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor and whistleblower, has leaked documents that claim the US National Security Agency (NSA) and UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have actively reverse engineered security and anti-virus software to obtain intelligence, according to a report by The Intercept.
The documents obtained reportedly highlight the Russian software security firm, Kaspersky Lab, as one of the main targets, with GCHQ reverse-engineering Kaspersky's anti-virus software looking for vulnerabilities that could be subverted.
The Intercept posted an NSA document titled "Project Camberdada" that lists at least 23 antivirus and security firms that were in that spy agency's sights -- none of the companies were of U.K. or U.S. origin, but there was more than one firm from the country in which Snowden now calls home.
Earlier this month, Eugene Kaspersky said in a blog post that his firm had recently discovered an advanced attack on its software. The security mogul said that his company was quite confident that there was a nation state behind the attack, but made it clear that he did not wish to attribute it.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Cyberespionage