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NSA Spying on Foreign Anti-Virus Companies<\/h4>\n

Recently uncovered Edward Snowden documents – shows that the NSA has worked to reverse engineer popular security software – specifically targeting foreign made anti-virus software.<\/p>\n

NSA Spied On Non-American Anti-Virus Companies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

British and American intelligence agencies have spied on anti-virus companies and probed their software for weaknesses, as the snoops sought to enhance their offensive surveillance techniques, according to fresh Edward Snowden documents released by The Intercept<\/a>. This was predictable given previous revelations around the extensive hacking capabilities at GCHQ and the NSA, but for reasons not outlined in the leaks or by the agencies themselves, notable US and UK anti-virus providers were seemingly left untouched, despite being used across the world.<\/p>\n

On the hitlist of \u201cProject CAMBERDADA\u201d, an NSA-led initiative, were Russian giant Kaspersky, Finnish firm F-Secure, Romania\u2019s BitDefender, Germany\u2019s Avira, Slovakia\u2019s ESET, South Korean giant AhnLab, as well as Czech vendors AVG and Avast.<\/strong> Some firm\u2019s may have been on the list purely because of their association with Kaspersky. Israel\u2019s Check Point, which licenses the Kaspersky anti-virus engine for its consumer product, ZoneAlarm, was also a target. Older versions of F-Secure also used the Kaspersky signature database, which contained lists of blacklisted malware.–<\/br>http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/thomasbrewster\/2015\/06\/22\/foreign-av-companies-targeted-by-nsa\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NSA Has Reverse-Engineered Popular Consumer Anti-Virus Software In Order To Track Users<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The NSA and its British counterpart the GCHQ have put extensive effort into hacking popular security software products to \u201ctrack users and infiltrate networks,\u201d according to the latest round of Snowden docs unearthed today by The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity companies, including the Moscow-headquartered Kaspersky Lab, were targeted by government agencies to gain intelligence of the latest exploits. Details of the security software\u2019s inner workings were deciphered by agencies through a process called software reverse engineering (SRE), which allowed them to analyze and exploit the software suites.<\/p>\n

A top-secret warrant renewal request issued by the GCHQ details the motivations behind infiltrating the products of such anti-virus companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonal security products such as the Russian anti-virus software Kaspersky continue to pose a challenge to GCHQ\u2019s CNE [Computer Network Exploitation] capability,\u201d the warrant stated, \u201cand SRE is essential in order to be able to exploit such software and to prevent detection of our activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

A leaked 2010 presentation called \u201cProject CAMBERDADA\u201d also suggested that the government agencies may be searching through and flagging the emails of employees from cybersecurity firms in order to identify more of these threats.–http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/06\/22\/nsa-has-reverse-engineered-popular-consumer-anti-virus-software-in-order-to-track-users\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently uncovered Edward Snowden documents – shows that the NSA has worked to reverse engineer popular security software – specifically targeting foreign made anti-virus software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":41764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[4813],"class_list":["post-51113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-foreign-av-companies"],"yoast_head":"\nNSA Spying on Foreign Anti-Virus Companies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"NSA Spying on Foreign Anti-Virus Companies - 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