NSA FOXACID

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2014
NSA programs MYSTIC and RETRO spies phone calls on global scale, also on past conversations

Documents leaked by Snowden reveals that NSA has built a surveillance system capable of recording all the phone calls of a foreign country. The information on the surveillance capabilities of the National Security Agency is updated on a daily base and last news is that the agency has the necessary technology to record all the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2014
QUANTUMHAND – NSA impersonates Facebook to inject malware

Recent revelations on TURBINE platform include also a disturbing truth, NSA used QUANTUMHAND exploits to implant malware in Facebook users’ machines. Last Week Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald revealed the existence of TURBINE platform, a sophisticated hacking architecture used to take control of botnet C&C servers managed by cybercrime. One of the details revealed by the journalists raised a heated […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2014
TURBINE, how NSA has plundered botnets to the cybercrime

TURBINE is the codename for a sophisticated hacking platform to take control of C&C servers managed by cybercrime. The NSA has been hijacking the botnets managed by cybercrime to its own purpose, this is the last revelation on questionable activities of the agency. Also this last revelation is based on documents leaked by Snowden, the news was […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2013
NSA FOXACID servers used to drive the hack into target systems

NSA leaked documents reveals the existence of FOXACID servers that provides an automated hacking platform used to drive operators into hacking targets. Security expert Bruce Schneier revealed in a recent post that the NSA has a wide-ranging arsenal of zero-day exploits to use for cyber operations, mainly used for cyber espionage campaigns. The effort spent by government for the […]