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Researchers Tie Regin Malware To NSA, Five Eyes Intel Agencies

Posted by timothy on from the which-wolves-and-which-sheep dept.

Trailrunner7 writes Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered shared code and functionality between the Regin malware platform and a similar platform described in a newly disclosed set of Edward Snowden documents 10 days ago by Germany's Der Spiegel. The link, found in a keylogger called QWERTY allegedly used by the so-called Five Eyes, leads them to conclude that the developers of each platform are either the same, or work closely together. "Considering the extreme complexity of the Regin platform and little chance that it can be duplicated by somebody without having access to its source codes, we conclude the QWERTY malware developers and the Regin developers are the same or working together," wrote Kaspersky Lab researchers Costin Raiu and Igor Soumenkov today in a published report. (Here is the Spiegel article.)

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  1. The NSA is a spy agency by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's more likely they were spying on the Regin developers, stole their code, and modified it for their own purpose.

  2. Cyber terrorism ... by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If we did it, it's cyberterrorism. If they do it, it's law enforcement.

    Assholes.

    These clowns are entirely willing to undermine the security of every computer on the planet to get their grubby fingers into everything.

    We need products which keep these guys out, and these guys need a serious beat down in the courts to limit what they can do. A few of them probably should be hung for treason.

    Morally, every black hat should be targeting these agencies to cause as much damage to them as possible -- because the damage they're doing to our freedoms is immeasurable.

    Thanks, America, for leading the charge in fucking up the planet.

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    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  3. When will there be justice? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How long is it going to take before the American people get fed up with this. The NSA is obviously an out of control agency and has been for years. The people in charge need to start spending LONG prison sentences for their crimes against humanity. And before people start screaming "Think about the terrorists" remember that those in charge (both the NSA, FBI and others) have deliberately chosen to ignore gathered intell about actual terrorist threats (such as 911 and the Boston Marathon bombers). This should prove to everyone that the government considers their own citizens as more of a threat than foreign terrorists.