NSA and others found reverse engineering commercial security software and used for intelligence activities

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It is an intelligence agency of both the United States and the United KingdomUS National Security Agency(NSA) andGovernment Communications Headquarters(GCHQ), security software widely used for general consumers so that individuals targeted by each institution can more efficiently track what kind of activity they are doing on the Internetreverse engineeringWhat I was doing was the latest published by Mr. Edward SnowdenTop secret sentenceIt was clarified by.

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It is widely marketed and there are many general usersKasperskyIt was revealed that some Internet security software, including Target, was the target of reverse engineering of NSA and GCHQ. The reason why NSA and GCHQ analyzed multiple security software is thought to develop a software package for spies that is not detected by security software popular among consumers.

Also, created by GCHQSecret document"Companies developing security products for individuals like Kaspersky continue to obstruct GCHQ's ability to CNE (Computer Network Exploitation)", and in terms of software reliability engineering It is also stated that "It is essential to ensure that network detection done by secret behind by GCHQ is not detected by security software for general purpose."

According to Mr. Snowden's leaked secret sentence, the project to strengthen spy acts by reverse engineering by NSA and GCHQ is called "Project CAMBERDADA", which is a project proposed in 2010 It is known. According to the document of Project CAMBERDADA, NSA and GCHQ seem to be trying to pick up functions that are likely to be a threat with the latest security software from e-mails of employees working in Internet security related companies.


In addition, it seems that companies that may have been the targets of reverse engineering are targeted by not only companies in the United States and the UK, but also security related companies in various countries.


In response to these facts, Kaspersky said, "The intelligence agencies of the government recognize companies like us as enemies and concentrate resources and security software designed to secure on the Internet Although it is a very worrisome thing to work to destroy it is not a big surprise.We have worked diligently to protect customers from various "attacks." This "attack "It includes both attacks by general net criminals and government-spy actions."

It is unknown how big the tracking system developed by NSA or GCHQ has become.Top secret materialAccording to GCHQ, it is clear that information is collected from 100 million malware a day.