ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

More evidence surfaced this week that computer surveillance tools belonging to the mysterious Equation hacking group are linked to the US National Security Agency.

Cyber-security experts were divided on the origin of the hacking code, which was leaked on Monday by another hacking group called calling itself the "Shadow Brokers." But The Intercept reported on Friday that a specific 16-character string found in a leaked NSA instruction manual also appears in the Shadow Brokers code.

The manual, a 31-page document entitled "FOXACID SOP for Operational Management," describes administrative tools for tracking surveillance targets, including a set of tags used to catalogue servers, according to The Intercept. The tags are used to trick Internet users into thinking they're browsing a safe website when in fact they've been sent a malicious payload from an NSA server.

Although it appears to show a link between the Shadow Brokers hack and the NSA, The Intercept acknowledges its findings don't necessarily mean that the NSA itself was hacked. The code could have been stolen from third-party hackers, a possibility Edward Snowden alluded to on Monday.

 

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