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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: 5, Insightful) by RamiK on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:45PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday October 14 2017, @04:45PM (#582324)

    1. Some suit copied NSA binaries to his home computer.
    2. His Kaspersky antivirus automatically submitted the suspected binaries to cloud virus scanning like every other virus scanner does.
    3. A while later some Israeli hacker was looking around Kaspersky's network and their script flagged them.
    4. Israel notified the US one of their employees was being an idiot.
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    OMG THE RUSSIANS HACKED OUR NETWORK AND STOLE OUR FILES!

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