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Russia Hack US Elections by prettybella1(f): 6:01pm On Aug 18, 2016 |
Hacking tools allegedly developed by the
US
National Security Agency (NSA) were
dumped
online by a group calling itself Shadow
Brokers.
It follows a string of recent leaks of data
from the
Democratic National Committee (DNC).
There are also now suspicions that the
Clinton
Foundation, a charitable body, may have
been
targeted .
Is this part of a Russian campaign to
damage the
US and even influence the presidential
election in
November, or are things a little more
complicated
than that?
What is in the latest leak?
Analysis of the files released by Shadow
Brokers
has revealed a group of malware that
can be
used to hack US-made firewalls and
routers.
Indeed, the tech firms Cisco and Fortinet
have
warned customers that there are some
serious
exploits in the dump that affect their
products.
Juniper Networks has also said it is
reviewing the
data to see if its devices are affected.
There are fears that some of the exploits
were
"zero-day" vulnerabilities, meaning they
had gone
undetected.
The hacking tools are believed to belong
to a
group of malware developed by "The
Equation
Group", which was first revealed by
cybersecurity
firm Kaspersky in 2015.
"On the basis of what we've looked at, we
certainly believe that there's a
connection to the
Equation Group malware," said David
Emm,
Kaspersky's principal security
researcher, told the
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