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
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday October 14 2017, @03:27AM
> Kaspersky admitted that they were hacked into. Now we know who did it.
Technically you can play chess and say that story is their cover.
I'll throw in two more data points.
1. Secret services is a worldwide network that basically does not care about who rules what. The lower ranks are always working for their nation, to self sacrifice. The higher ranks probably know a bit more about the system being already one.
2. Israel and russia have long standing relationships. Bolsheviks used to rule Russia and their exit was not violent. In fact, Putin was a nobody before getting in charge.
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