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GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware

Posted by samzenpus on from the careful-what-you-click dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica reports how a Snowden leak shows British spy agency GCHQ spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot so as to serve malware to targeted employees. From the article: 'Der Spiegel suggests that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British sister agency to the NSA, used spoofed versions of LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to serve malware to targets. This type of attack was also used to target “nine salaried employees” of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the global oil cartel.'"

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  1. No doubt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The idea that Snowden hasn't given any information to the Russians is, in fact, hilarious at best.

    The real question is - what information?

    "Yo, Vlad, I like how you did not authorize sexy to leave in the first place, but the NSA is in ur routers, readin' ur e-mail," isn't very damning, yet appears to be pretty much the only thing Snowden has been revealing.

    Would that get him asylum? Sure, why not? Verified proof of something everyone knows is going on but nobody will admit to, that's thus capable of embarrassing the US on the world stage? Sure, that's probably worth a Visa (or whatever the Russian equivalent is).