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Researchers Tie Regin Malware To NSA, Five Eyes Intel Agencies
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.)
When he stops being of use to his Russian handlers, they'll quietly dispose of him and pin the blame on the US and UK. Kaspersky is one of the better AV systems out there, however I have to take with a grain of salt the claims made by a company headed by someone who studied at a school which was essentially a KGB recruitment camp, using documents leaked by a traitor who is being harbored by a hostile government and who is trotted out as a propaganda piece when it suits the aims of the de facto dictator of that adversary.