The NSA , National Security Agency of USA , would have figured out how to hide a spy program in hard drives made by companies like Western Digital , Seagate, IBM and Samsung. Thus, the NSA won means for spy on most computers in the world , according to cyber investigators revealed Reuters . The discovery of the NSA program came mainly of Russian researchers integrate Kaspersky Lab security software maker based in Moscow. They had previously revealed a series of Western cyber espionage operations.
According to Reuters, Kaspersky found personal computers in more than thirty countries “infected” with spy programs – the highest incidence of these programs in such countries as Iran, followed by Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Mali, Syria, Yemen and Algeria. The targets include from governments to military institutions, through telecommunications companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear research institute, press and groups with Islamic activities.
The laboratory refused to publicly say which institution or government is behind this gigantic espionage action, but said that everything is related to Stuxnet, special software the NSA that was used to attack Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities. A former -funcionário American agency told Reuters that the analysis of Russian and Kaspersky Lab is correct and that the people inside the NSA continue valuing very spy programs and as Stuxnet cyberattack. Another former employee of the area of intelligence operations confirmed that the NSA had developed a technique to hide a powerful “spyware” within the drives of the computers, but he could not say how far this action arrived. A spokesman said the agency had a report drawn up by the Russians, but he would not comment publicly.
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The report with technical details was published on Monday (16/02) and has been treated as something that can help bring up discussions about spy programs and to what extent they are valid and institutions are entitled to make use them. Public disclosure of all data could harm the surveillance skills and operation of the NSA – which have been badly hurt after allegations of Edward Snowden.
The software discovery was considered important by the Russians, because it is a very advanced technology, in which a “malicious software” is inserted in an obscure code and this is activated every time a computer is turned on. Thus, the hardware was being continually infected, said a researcher at Kaspersky. The report also shows that this software works on hard drives manufactured by more than a dozen companies – which could cover almost the entire market: Western Digital Corp., through Seagate Technology Plc, Toshiba Corp, IBM, Micron Technology Inc. to Samsung.
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