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posted by takyon on Saturday October 14 2017, @12:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the proactive-data-recovery dept.

Last week, The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell when it reported that Russian government hackers located confidential National Security Agency material improperly stored on an employee's home computer with help from Kaspersky antivirus, which happened to be installed. On Tuesday, The New York Times and The Washington Post provided another shocker: the Russian hackers were caught in the act by spies from Israel, who were burrowed deep inside Kaspersky's corporate network around the time of the theft.

Ars Technica: How Kaspersky AV reportedly was caught helping Russian hackers steal NSA secrets

The New York Times: How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World for U.S. Secrets

The Washington Post: Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached (archive)

Previously: Kaspersky Lab and Lax Contractor Blamed for Russian Acquisition of NSA Tools


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @01:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 14 2017, @01:12AM (#582116)

    There was no doubt they spy on us. We spy on them. Israel spys on everyone too. They all spy on each other. Why do you think manning was arrested, assanage sits in a lonely 1 room apartment, and snowden is in exile? Not because the other spy agencies didnt know about it. They just did not want the public knowing about it. The US has no less that 3 different agencies whos JOB it is to spy. They have dozens of companies in their pocket doing the exact same thing as big ol scarry 'russia'. Israel in this case decided it was in their best interest to fuck around with us and the russians at the same time.

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