Posted on 03/13/2014 10:53:12 AM PDT by JoeProBono
As part of its efforts to install malware on “millions” of computers worldwide, the National Security Agency impersonated Facebook to trick targets into downloading malicious code.
“In some cases the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server, using the social media site as a launching pad to infect a target’s computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive,” reports The Intercept in its latest expose based on top-secret documents obtained by Edward Snowden.
“[The NSA] has sent out spam emails laced with the malware, which can be tailored to covertly record audio from a computer’s microphone and take snapshots with its webcam. The hacking systems have also enabled the NSA to launch cyberattacks by corrupting and disrupting file downloads or denying access to websites.”
The Facebook trick was called QUANTUMHAND by the NSA, and was initially tested on “about a dozen targets” before being launched on a larger scale in 2010, the documents show......
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Well, I guess turnabout is fair play. Facebook pretends to be the NSA..................
Why pretend? NSA gets all facebook’s data anyways.
Getting hard to see friend from foe.
Dats why I don’t do FB.....................
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Also, sites like “Clean my PC”, “My Clean PC” etc...
How is this even legal?
You’re on FR.
You’re at the top of the list with the rest of us.
Don’t worry about anything that being on FB would bring, LOL.
I don’t have a camera or microphone.
If they are connected to the US government, they are the foe.
You’re making me paranoid.................
Hate Muslims and their like for airplanes and skyscrapers. We aren’t any better than the Soviets now.
I would love to know which operating systems were affected. Windows, certainly. Mac, Android, Linux - who knows?
Good thing I don’t use, never have used FB or any other so called ‘social media’.
Nut-Job Conspiracy Worthy?
So, where is the article on how to test if one is infected, and how to fix it?
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/03/12/nsa-plans-infect-millions-computers-malware/
Not sure how much info is contained in this article, I have just found it myself.
That’s a crime. When do the prosecutions begin?
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