NSA infected about 50,000 computer networks with spyware

The US National Security Agency is once again accused of illegally spying on citizens. This time we are talking not about wiretapping telephone conversations of presidents of different countries, but about intercepting personal information of users directly in computer networks.

Edward Snowden has published new secret documents that shed light on another project of the NSA, called "Computer Network Exploitation" or simply CNE. The goal of the project is to gain access to computer networks around the world and install special spyware applications that carefully filter and track information of interest to the NSA.

Attacks on computer networks were committed by specially employed hackers, the number of which, according to documents, was more than 1000 people. As of 2008, the NSA was crushing about 20,000 computer networks around the world. By the middle of 2012, the number of networks controlled by the NSA almost doubled - to 50,000.

In addition to tracking the flow of important information in infected networks, the NSA also installed special “sleeping Trojans” on computers that have access to these networks, which can be activated at any time by a remote command. Using these Trojans, NSA employees can do almost anything with an infected computer, and users won't even guess about it.

Worked on the CNE project with the NSA since 1998. It was quite expected that the NSA leadership refused to comment on the information that appeared in the world's major mass media, arguing that the disclosure of such data could adversely affect the US national security.

On materials nrc.nl

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