NSA 'infected' 50,000 networks with malware
The US National Security Agency (NSA) infected 50,000 networks with malware, Dutch newspaper NRC has reported.
The Tailored Access Operations department used it to steal sensitive information, according to a censored slide leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. NRC said 20,000 networks had been hit in 2008, with the program recently expanded to include others in Rome, Berlin, Pristina, Kinshasa, Rangoon.
"Clearly, conventional criminal gangs aren't the only people interested in breaking into computer networks anymore," wrote computer security expert Graham Cluley in a blogpost.
The NSA declined to comment.
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