Experts Unmask 'Regin' Trojan as NSA Tool

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Just weeks ago, SPIEGEL published the source code of an NSA malware program known internally as QWERTY. Now, experts have found that it is none other than the notorious trojan Regin, used in dozens of cyber attacks around the world.

Earlier this month, SPIEGEL International published an article based on the trove of documents made available by whistleblower Edward Snowden describing the increasingly complex digital weapons being developed by intelligence services in the US and elsewhere. Concurrently, several documents were published as well as the source code of a sample malware program called QWERTY found in the Snowden archive.

For most readers, that source code was little more than 11 pages of impenetrable columns of seemingly random characters. But experts with the Russian IT security company Kaspersky compared the code with malware programs they have on file. What they found were clear similarities with an elaborate cyber-weapon that has been making international headlines since November of last year.

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Now the question is: who is hiding what or is Kaspersky making it up as they go?

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Well that's Cyberwarfare for you, it wouldn't make sense if all the big dogs didn't have such a thing in this technological computer age. I'd be surprised if one of them didn't have such a thing.

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I think everyone is already so tired of the crap to even care anymore ~

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Well that's Cyberwarfare for you, it wouldn't make sense if all the big dogs didn't have such a thing in this technological computer age. I'd be surprised if one of them didn't have such a thing.

Yes, but you always have to remember the first commandment of the spy bidness: "Thou shalt not be caught"... we were accustomed of the CIA constantly violating it (because there is hardly anything they have not been caught doing), if all national spook agencies start following their bad example we soon will have no more spies (that count for anything, that is).

[Gunn]

Yes, but you always have to remember the first commandment of the spy bidness: "Thou shalt not be caught"... we were accustomed of the CIA constantly violating it (because there is hardly anything they have not been caught doing), if all national spook agencies start following their bad example we soon will have no more spies (that count for anything, that is).

Lol, yeah you got that right! But do or did they ever know that commandment? I really wonder sometimes.