The National Security Agencies of United States breaches security of others by hiding surveillance software in hard drives.
The Moscow-based computer security firm Kaspersky Lab has discovered new methods allegedly used by a group known as the ‘Equation Group’, potentially linked to America’s National Security Agency, to establish the world’s most complex spy system, infecting tens of thousands of computers and targeting computer networks and telecoms across 30 countries, including Afghanistan, China, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, and Russia.
It's been known for a while that the NSA will intercept and bug equipment to spy on its soon-to-be owners, but the intellgency agency's techniques are apparently more clever than first thought. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered apparently state-created spyware buried in the firmware of hard drives from big names like Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital. The NSA isn't commenting on the findings.
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