Der Spiegel’sfairly harrowing reportabout the NSA ’s hacking unit , Tailored Access Operations ( TAO ) , got a little more torturing this morning when an unnamed blogger at LeakSourcepublished imagesfrom the way ’s hilariously - named and terrifying undercover agent gear catalogue .
The 2008 catalog shows off the tools of an NSA division bid ANT which supposable stands for Access or Advanced connection Technology . within , you may see everything from a mobile phone software that gobble up location information or activates the phone ’s mike to a USB stick that establish the NSA an open door into the computer ’s hard drive . Since a pot of the software implants aim the BIOS — the most introductory software on a computer used to bring up up the machine — they ca n’t be get or withdraw by pass over the hard drive . And some are as cheap as $ 0 .
We ’ve name a few of the sketchier token below , butit ’s deserving clicking though to Leaksource for the full catalog .
HEADWATER : This so - call up Persistant Backdoor ( PBD ) give spies a way to access Huawei routers . This is particularly since Huawei is the party that recently jeopardize to discontinue doing business in the US due to spying .
NIGHTSTAND : This ironware lets spies break into WiFi electronic internet and deliver cyberattacks . It work as far aside as 8 knot .
GOPHERSET : This is a earpiece drudge ’s tight dream . It ’s a GSM software implant that uses the SIM scorecard ’s API , known as the SIM Toolkit or STK , to send commands to the phone . From there , the spy can pull anything from leaning of contacts to the content of text messages .
MONKEYCALENDAR : This software implant for GSM phones can grant undercover agent access to all of a twist ’s geolocation selective information . And like GOPHERSET it can be installed over - the - air .
PICASSO : Now this is spyware . This software implants can collect call metadata , location data and even become on the phone ’s microphone to blame up conversations in the elbow room . It also features something called a “ panic button , ” but the catalog does n’t explain its function .
COTTONMOUTH - I : It reckon like a regular sure-enough USB marijuana cigarette but it ’s actually a little sight computer . The catalog says it creates “ wireless nosepiece into a target web as well as the ability to load exploit software package onto target personal computer . ”
You canhop over to Leaksourceto see the full spreading of gearing in all its glory ( ? ) . [ LeaksourceviaAllThingsD ]
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