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Reuters: NSA is deliberately infecting journalists’ computers with invasive spyware

The U.S. NSA is deliberately infecting thousands of computers around the world with invasive spying malware that’s impossible to remove. It seems not a week goes by without a new revelation about how spy agency surveillance has grown secretive, expensive, and out-of-control. Speak out at OpenMedia.org/spyonus Article by Joseph Menn for Reuters  The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.

That long-sought and closely guarded ability was part of a cluster of spying programs discovered by Kaspersky Lab, the Moscow-based security software maker that has exposed a series of Western cyberespionage operations.
 
Kaspersky said it found personal computers in 30 countries infected with one or more of the spying programs, with the most infections seen in Iran, followed by Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, Mali, Syria, Yemen and Algeria. The targets included government and military institutions, telecommunication companies, banks, energy companies, nuclear researchers, media, and Islamic activists, Kaspersky said.
 
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