Code Names for NSA Exploit Tools
This is from a Snowden document released by Le Monde:
General Term Descriptions:
HIGHLANDS: Collection from Implants
VAGRANT: Collection of Computer Screens
MAGNETIC: Sensor Collection of Magnetic Emanations
MINERALIZE: Collection from LAN Implant
OCEAN: Optical Collection System for Raster-Based Computer Screens
LIFESAFER: Imaging of the Hard Drive
GENIE: Multi-stage operation: jumping the airgap etc.
BLACKHEART: Collection from an FBI Implant
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DROPMIRE: Passive collection of emanations using antenna
CUSTOMS: Customs opportunities (not LIFESAVER)
DROPMIRE: Laser printer collection, purely proximal access (***NOT*** implanted)
DEWSWEEPER: USB (Universal Serial Bus) hardware host tap that provides COVERT link over US link into a target network. Operates w/RF relay subsystem to provide wireless Bridge into target network.
RADON: Bi-directional host tap that can inject Ethernet packets onto the same targets. Allows bi-directional exploitation of denied networks using standard on-net tools.
There’s a lot to think about in this list. RADON and DEWSWEEPER seem particularly interesting.
silly • October 23, 2013 10:07 AM
Grist for your mill from the other side:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/10/23/north-korea-may-have-secretly-engineered-popular-computer-games-to-launch-mass-cyber-attack/?wprss=rss_world