Once again Russians hackers cracked NSA security.

in #politics7 years ago

As reported on the Wall Street Journal on Thursday an NSA contractor holding sensitive NSA software was hacked. The NSA contractor is said to have secured his laptop with a known Russian security program provided by Kaspersky Labs. Using Kaspersky's back door Russian hackers were then able to infiltrate the contractor's laptop and steal the NSA's sensitive cybertools.

It is said that Kaspersky’s security program were able to identified the NSA programs on the contractor’s laptop. However investigators are not yet certain if Kaspersky employees had informed the hackers directly of said programs. It is unclear exactly how these hackers got a hold of NSA's sensitive cybertools. Investigations suggest that previous NSA hacks of Kaspersky’s security caused Kaspersky’s security algorithms to become more sensitive of the NSA's cybertools. In result, the NSA's cybertools were identified and hackers were able to then infiltrate the contractor’s laptop and the identified NSA programs.

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