humble3d Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Yet Another Russian Hack of the NSA -- This Time with Kaspersky's Help The Wall Street Journal has a bombshell of a story. Yet another NSA contractor took classified documents home with him. Yet another Russian intelligence operation stole copies of those documents. The twist this time is that the Russians identified the documents because the contractor had Kaspersky Labs anti-virus installed on his home computer. This is either an example of the Russians subverting a perfectly reasonable security feature in Kaspersky's products, or Kaspersky adding a plausible feature at the request of Russian intelligence. In the latter case, it's a nicely deniable Russian information operation. In either case, it's an impressive Russian information operation. This is a huge deal, both for the NSA and Kaspersky. The Wall Street Journal article contains no evidence, only unnamed sources. But I am having trouble seeing how the already embattled Kaspersky Labs survives this. What's getting a lot less press is yet another NSA contractor stealing top-secret cyberattack software. What is it with the NSA's inability to keep anything secret anymore? And it seems that Israeli intelligence penetrated the Kaspersky network and noticed the operation. https://www.schneier.com/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-hackers-stole-nsa-data-on-u-s-cyber-defense-1507222108 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knowledge-Spammer Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 sure they did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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