Chinese Cybersecurity Company Doxes Apparent NSA Hacking Operation (vice.com) 18
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A Chinese cybersecurity company accused the NSA of being behind a hacking tool used for ten years in a report published on Wednesday. The report from Pangu Lab delves into malware that its researchers first encountered in 2013 during an investigation into a hack against "a key domestic department." At the time, the researchers couldn't figure out who was behind the hack, but then, thanks to leaked NSA data about the hacking group Equation Group -- widely believed to be the NSA -- released by the mysterious group Shadow Brokers and by the German magazine Der Spiegel, they connected the dots and realized it was made by the NSA, according to the report.
"The Equation Group is the world's leading cyber-attack group and is generally believed to be affiliated with the National Security Agency of the United States. Judging from the attack tools related to the organization, including Bvp47, Equation group is indeed a first-class hacking group," the report read, referring to the name of the tool the researchers found. "The tool is well-designed, powerful, and widely adapted. Its network attack capability equipped by 0day vulnerabilities was unstoppable, and its data acquisition under covert control was with little effort. The Equation Group is in a dominant position in national-level cyberspace confrontation." Further Reading: Anatomy of Top-Tier Suspected NSA Backdoor Code (The Register)
"The Equation Group is the world's leading cyber-attack group and is generally believed to be affiliated with the National Security Agency of the United States. Judging from the attack tools related to the organization, including Bvp47, Equation group is indeed a first-class hacking group," the report read, referring to the name of the tool the researchers found. "The tool is well-designed, powerful, and widely adapted. Its network attack capability equipped by 0day vulnerabilities was unstoppable, and its data acquisition under covert control was with little effort. The Equation Group is in a dominant position in national-level cyberspace confrontation." Further Reading: Anatomy of Top-Tier Suspected NSA Backdoor Code (The Register)
What side you on, black or white? (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Re: What side you on, black or white? (Score:1)
Not Doxxing (Score:5, Informative)
That is not what doxxing means...
It's not hacking ... (Score:1)
when our side does it.
Re: It's not hacking ... (Score:2)
Honestly what do you expect? Foreign state actors have been targeting the US for years. You'd have to be quite naive if you thought the US would never reciprocate. Doesn't it seem a bit odd to you that the US has never used its diplomatic muscle to pressure foreign governments into signing anti-hacking agreements? The US government speaks quite loudly when it says nothing at all. If you didn't hear it, you just weren't paying attention.
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"Reciprocate"? You are under the illusion that back when the US was #1 in tech in the world, we weren't doing it *first*, and this is their payback?
Re: It's not hacking ... (Score:2)
Well part of being first in tech tends to mean that you're vulnerable first. But yes, some believe the US conducted the world's very first cyber attack, and it was against Russia all the way back in the 80s, when they had practically no dependence on computers.
So what did we attack then? Well, Russia was stealing tech from the US that they were then using to build a gas pipeline to Europe, with the intention of making the west have an economic dependence on the USSR. When the CIA found out about it, they al
Have they ever reported the CCP? (Score:3)
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Has this Chinese group ever revealed hacking by the Chinese government? Are they impartial? Just wondering...
Apparently the title of the "world's leading cyber-attack group" is something every country wishes to grant to some other country while at the same time silently aspiring to that achievement.
Shoot the messenger (Score:1)
Did the American human rights report ever report anything in America? No.
You have nothing to refute in the report so you can only attack the messenger. Just like Wikileaks and Assange. Seem to lend more credence to the report to me.
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The web site says (in Chinese) that the group was established on 22/02/2022 and they only have two articles - the one announcing their creation, and the one exposing the NSA hacking operation.
Oh, we can't have documented evidence can we? (Score:2)
Look what they Did to Assange, and would do to Snowden if they could.
1,000 NSA eyes make bugs shallow. (Score:3)
The tool is well-designed, powerful, and widely adapted
For when the government writes better code than most programmers.
Re: America State Sponsored Hacking Operation (Score:1)