How the NSA Plans to Infect 'Millions' of Computers with Malware - The Intercept
Top-secret documents reveal that the National
Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack
into computers on a mass scale by using automated systems that reduce
the level of human oversight in the process.
The classified
files – provided previously by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden –
contain new details about groundbreaking surveillance technology the
agency has developed to infect potentially millions of computers
worldwide with malware “implants.” The clandestine initiative enables
the NSA to break into targeted computers and to siphon out data from
foreign Internet and phone networks
