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Fakebook! NSA posed as Facebook to spread surveillance malware
NSA uses botnets to install spyware on people's computers.
While US law enforcement agencies have long tried to stamp out networks of compromised computers used by cyber criminals, the National Security Agency has been hijacking the so-called botnets as a resource for spying.
The NSA has “co-opted” more than 140,000 computers since August 2007 for the purpose of injecting them with spying software, according to a slide leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by The Intercept news website on Wednesday.
Botnets are typically used by criminals to steal financial information from infected machines, to relay spam messages, and to conduct “denial-of-service” attacks against websites by having all the computers try to connect simultaneously, thereby overwhelming them.
Many botnet operations disable the machines’ security software, leaving them vulnerable to new attacks by others.
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NSA uses botnets to install spyware on people's computers.
While US law enforcement agencies have long tried to stamp out networks of compromised computers used by cyber criminals, the National Security Agency has been hijacking the so-called botnets as a resource for spying.
The NSA has “co-opted” more than 140,000 computers since August 2007 for the purpose of injecting them with spying software, according to a slide leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by The Intercept news website on Wednesday.
Botnets are typically used by criminals to steal financial information from infected machines, to relay spam messages, and to conduct “denial-of-service” attacks against websites by having all the computers try to connect simultaneously, thereby overwhelming them.
Many botnet operations disable the machines’ security software, leaving them vulnerable to new attacks by others.
Read Full Here