A top-secret NSA guide, provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden and previously unpublished, confirms that hackers have in fact breached a computer system controlled by the NSA and obtained some of the software the agency uses to covertly infect computers worldwide.
This exclusive report from The Intercept’s Sam Biddle details the capabilities of the NSA’s software surveillance systems and underlines how the agency allowed its adversaries to get their hands on some of them, putting those adversaries in a position to use them against Americans. It also shows how a special 16-character string from the Snowden documents can be used to fingerprint and authenticate the agency’s malware, including some found in the dump earlier this week by hackers calling themselves ShadowBrokers.
Ryan Tate
Deputy Editor
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