NSA TAO Botnet

Moritz moritz at headstrong.de
Tue Nov 26 15:51:40 PST 2013


On 11/27/2013 12:32 AM, CJ Knight wrote:
> "Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad reports that the elite NSA TAO
> (Tailored Access Operations) hacking squad had used malware to establish
> a zombie army with tentacles all across the world.

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/this-is-how-the-internet-backbone-has-been-turned-into-a-weapon

[...] All it takes is a single request from a victim passing a wiretap
for exploitation to occur. Once the QUANTUM wiretap identifies the
victim, it simply packet injects a 302 redirect to a FOXACID server. Now
the victim’s browser starts talking to the FOXACID server, which quickly
takes over the victim’s computer. The NSA calls this QUANTUMINSERT.



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